{"petition":[{"petition_analysis_number":"11482110","petition_url":"https:\/\/dlas.uncg.edu\/petitions\/petition\/11482110","state":"Tennessee","county":"Carter","location_type":"County","file_month":10,"file_year":1821,"filing_court":"Legislative","result":"referred to Committee of Propositions and Grievances: \"Reasonable\"","enslaved_count":0,"fpoc_count":0,"total_people_count":1,"repository":"Tennessee State Library and Archives, Nashville, Tennessee","abstract":"Mary Humphreys represents that she and her husband Jesse \"have amassed a considerable property, consisting of farms, mill & stock of Negro's as well as the stock usually belonging to those engaged in Agricultural persuits.\"  She laments, however, that \"about four Years ago said Jesse, was seized with a melancholy state of mind, & began to neglect managing his affairs\"; his condition is such that \"she has caused him to be restrained from going thro the neighbourhood.\"  The petitioner also fears that Jesse's relatives \"are Hungry expectants of enjoying a share of his estate not contented to wait their Brothers decease.\"  She therefore \"prays Your Honorable body to pass a Law, appointing Your Petitioner Guardian of afsd Jesse, untill he is restored to his sences, or as long as the same may be necessary.\"","subjects":[{"subject":"Diseases (mental)"},{"subject":"Management (enslaved)"}]}]}