{"petition":[{"petition_analysis_number":"11280906","petition_url":"https:\/\/dlas.uncg.edu\/petitions\/petition\/11280906","state":"North Carolina","county":"Randolph","location_type":"County","file_day":27,"file_month":11,"file_year":1809,"filing_court":"Legislative","result":"House, Senate: read, referred","enslaved_count":1,"fpoc_count":0,"total_people_count":3,"repository":"North Carolina Department of Archives and History, Raleigh, North Carolina","abstract":"William Bell, an executor of the late Richard Sayrs, declares that his testator's will \"directed that a Molattoe boy of the name of George, then under age should be emancipated & set free.\"  Bell reports that the said George \"has lived in the family of your petitioner for a number of years & has been taught to read & Wright & has also learned the Black Smith trade.\"  Attesting that George is \"of good Moral Charactor and honoust principles,\" the petitioner prays \"your Honourable body to pass a Law to emancipate the Said boy George by the name of George Sayrs.\"","subjects":[{"subject":"owner(s)\/citizens manumit\/free slave"},{"subject":"Education and literacy (enslaved)"},{"subject":"Skills (enslaved)"}]}]}