{"petition":[{"petition_analysis_number":"11380019","petition_url":"https:\/\/dlas.uncg.edu\/petitions\/petition\/11380019","state":"South Carolina","county":"York","location_type":"District\/Parish","file_day":25,"file_month":11,"file_year":1800,"filing_court":"Petition","result":"referred to committee","enslaved_count":1,"fpoc_count":0,"total_people_count":3,"repository":"South Carolina Department of Archives and History, Columbia, South Carolina","abstract":"Robert Murphy, \"a guard\" under Constable William Moore, represents that he was called upon to apprehend \"a certain negro man named Joe, the property of a Robert Ash.\"  He states that said Joe had been charged with \"an Assault & Battery with an Intent of Ravishment\" on a white woman in the neighborhood.  Murphy recounts that he pursued Joe and \"found him at the Negro House of a Certain Mrs. Cally\" and that Joe \"did not surrender himself\" and instead \"fled & was killed.\"  Murphy, having been sued by Ash and fined $124 in damages, prays the legislature to grant \"such relief as to your wisdom shall seem meet.\"","subjects":[{"subject":"Militias\/Patrols"},{"subject":"Homicide"},{"subject":"Rape"},{"subject":"Freedom seekers"},{"subject":"Assault"}]}]}