{"petition":[{"petition_analysis_number":"11680002","petition_url":"https:\/\/dlas.uncg.edu\/petitions\/petition\/11680002","state":"Virginia","county":"Fauquier","location_type":"County","file_day":14,"file_month":12,"file_year":1800,"filing_court":"Legislative","enslaved_count":0,"fpoc_count":0,"total_people_count":1,"repository":"Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia","abstract":"Maryland slaveholder Dekar Thompson seeks permission to bring his slaves into Virginia.  Recently land located in Fauquier County has been purchased for him by the executors of the estate of a relative with the same name.  He states that he could sell his Maryland slaves and purchase new ones in Virginia, but he claims that as a person who has \"raised and brought them up,\" he is \"attached\" to his slaves \"and they to him.\"","subjects":[{"subject":"White attachment (enslaved)"}]}]}