{"petition":[{"petition_analysis_number":"11585311","petition_url":"https:\/\/dlas.uncg.edu\/petitions\/petition\/11585311","state":"Texas","county":"Guadalupe","location_type":"County","file_day":25,"file_month":1,"file_year":1853,"filing_court":"Legislative","result":"referred to Committee on State Affairs","enslaved_count":0,"fpoc_count":1,"total_people_count":9,"repository":"Texas State Library-Archives Division, Austin, Texas","abstract":"Nine residents of Guadalupe County ask that Daniel, a free mulatto, be permitted to remain in the state.  They report that \"Daniel was brought to the county from Mexico, in Peonage, by a Mr. Joseph L. Gould”; when Gould died, Daniel was placed under the guardianship of Dr. T. M. Anderson, the administrator of Gould's estate.  The residents concur that Daniel is a \"well behaved industrious man & he is desirous of remaining in the state under his present Guardian.\"  They therefore \"request that a law be passed granting him permission ... to remain in the State of Texas.\"","subjects":[{"subject":"State residency issues (FPOC)"},{"subject":"Guardianship (FPOC)"}]}]}