<petition><petition_analysis_number>11285404</petition_analysis_number><petition_url>https://dlas.uncg.edu/petitions/petition/11285404</petition_url><state>North Carolina</state><county>Cumberland</county><location_type>County</location_type><file_month>11</file_month><file_year>1854</file_year><filing_court>Petition</filing_court><enslaved_count>1</enslaved_count><fpoc_count>0</fpoc_count><total_people_count>6</total_people_count><repository>North Carolina Department of Archives and History, Raleigh, North Carolina</repository><abstract>The four owners of Peter Turner, a slave about sixty years of age, "desire his Emancipation from slavery" due to "his fidelity &amp; other good traits of character."   In an attached deposition, John Shaw praises Peter Turner and Abel Payne as being instrumental in saving his warehouse from a raging fire.</abstract><subjects><subject>owner(s)/citizens manumit/free slave</subject><subject>Seniors (enslaved)</subject></subjects></petition>