{"petition":[{"petition_analysis_number":"11483211","petition_url":"https:\/\/dlas.uncg.edu\/petitions\/petition\/11483211","state":"Tennessee","county":"Smith","location_type":"County","file_day":29,"file_month":8,"file_year":1832,"filing_court":"Petition","enslaved_count":0,"fpoc_count":2,"total_people_count":13,"repository":"Tennessee State Library and Archives, Nashville, Tennessee","abstract":"Thirty-one citizens of Smith County \"pray the legislature that they pass an act for the benefit of those persons John & Linsey and permit them to be free in this state as they have [been] faithful servants and have bourn a good character.\"  John and Linsey purchased their freedom from James M. Lucky.","subjects":[{"subject":"owner(s)\/citizens manumit\/free slave"},{"subject":"Purchase of freedom"},{"subject":"State residency issues (FPOC)"}]}]}