{"petition":[{"petition_analysis_number":"11285002","petition_url":"https:\/\/dlas.uncg.edu\/petitions\/petition\/11285002","state":"North Carolina","county":"Montgomery","location_type":"County","file_month":11,"file_year":1850,"filing_court":"Petition","enslaved_count":1,"fpoc_count":1,"total_people_count":3,"repository":"North Carolina Department of Archives and History, Raleigh, North Carolina","abstract":"David Kendall seeks to free his sixty-year-old slave Daniel, who has \"bin a faith ful slave and has performed wonderfully his [duties].\"  Kendall reports that Daniel's father, an old \"Colerd man who was liberated about 40 years agoe by the general Assembly\" and is called Daniel Shad, \"ever supported a good honest character.\"  He also represents that \"Daniel the servant to whom I now [petition] your honerable boddy to grant manumition is a slave of good moral and [honest] character.\"","subjects":[{"subject":"owner(s)\/citizens manumit\/free slave"},{"subject":"Seniors (enslaved)"}]}]}