{"petition":[{"petition_analysis_number":"11280513","petition_url":"https:\/\/dlas.uncg.edu\/petitions\/petition\/11280513","state":"North Carolina","county":"Robeson","location_type":"County","file_day":30,"file_month":11,"file_year":1805,"filing_court":"Legislative","end_day":10,"end_month":12,"end_year":1805,"ending_court":"Legislative","result":"rejected","enslaved_count":0,"fpoc_count":2,"total_people_count":9,"repository":"North Carolina Department of Archives and History, Raleigh, North Carolina","abstract":"Maj. William Odom joins six other petitioners in stating that they were recently \"try'd for a Riot, prosecuted by a Mullattoe by the name of Elisha Cumboe.\"  He  explains that the said Elisha is a part of \"a family of these Mullattoes who are well known to be of Infamous Characters\" and that they \"are envious malicious & dangerous persons, having a Villanous Clan about them.\"  Williams reports that said \"riot\" originated when William Townsend \"prosecuted & Convicted a Brother of said Elisha Cumboe for Larceny\" and the said Elisha, \"out of revenge,\" went to Townsend's plantation and \"shot & kill'd a valuable Horse of his.\"  They admit that \"for this Offence your petitioners proceeded to apprehend said Cumboe, perhaps without the Legal process of Law;\" Cumboe brought suit and Maj. Odom was fined fifteen pounds and the other petitioners incurred a ten-pound fine.  Asserting that \"the whole of the conduct of your petitioners was Instigated by an ardent wish to procure order & good Neighborhood,\" the petitioners pray that they be released from the payment of said fines.","subjects":[{"subject":"Property owners (Black)"},{"subject":"FPOC sues white"},{"subject":"Clandestine economy "}]}]}