{"petition":[{"petition_analysis_number":"11483301","petition_url":"https:\/\/dlas.uncg.edu\/petitions\/petition\/11483301","state":"Tennessee","county":"Washington","location_type":"County","file_year":1833,"filing_court":"Petition","enslaved_count":2,"fpoc_count":0,"total_people_count":5,"repository":"Tennessee State Library and Archives, Nashville, Tennessee","abstract":"George Crouch and Jacob Ellis, executors of the will of the late John Gates, represent that it was their testator's \"request & desire that two of his servants or slaves, towit, Chaine & Moses should be emancipated.\"  They avow that the said slaves are \"hale and harty negroes and will [be] able to support themselves.\"  They further report that \"so anxious was their master to provide for their welfare, that he not only devised their emancipation, but gave them a decent property.\"  The petitioners therefore pray \"your honorable body to pass a special act of Assembly such as will mete the case.\"","subjects":[{"subject":"owner(s)\/citizens manumit\/free slave"},{"subject":"Bequest (enslaved)"}]}]}