{"petition":[{"petition_analysis_number":"11285601","petition_url":"https:\/\/dlas.uncg.edu\/petitions\/petition\/11285601","state":"North Carolina","county":"","file_day":25,"file_month":11,"file_year":1856,"filing_court":"Legislative","result":"rejected","enslaved_count":1,"fpoc_count":0,"total_people_count":12,"repository":"North Carolina Department of Archives and History, Raleigh, North Carolina","abstract":"Seventy-six residents of North Carolina represent that \"Robert a slave aged about Sixty five years, now the property of Nathan B Hill, has been well known to us for many years, that he has always born the name and character of being a faithful, honest, and meritorious servant; and that anything that may be done for him towards freeing and granting him the rights of a freeman will not injure the public.\"  Hill adds that the said Robert \"has a wife and family here with whom it is his desire to remain.\"","subjects":[{"subject":"owner(s)\/citizens manumit\/free slave"},{"subject":"Purchase of freedom"},{"subject":"Seniors (enslaved)"},{"subject":"State residency issues (FPOC)"}]}]}