{"petition":[{"petition_analysis_number":"11680201","petition_url":"https:\/\/dlas.uncg.edu\/petitions\/petition\/11680201","state":"Virginia","county":"Richmond","location_type":"City","file_day":14,"file_month":12,"file_year":1802,"filing_court":"Legislative","result":"Reasonable, reported","enslaved_count":2,"fpoc_count":2,"total_people_count":5,"repository":"Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia","abstract":"Free black Sally Brown asks that she be allowed to inherit her deceased brother's estate.  Both she and her brother, Billy Brown, had been emancipated by Dr. Robert Brown, a Richmond physician, but when her brother died the great portion of the estate given him by his master was \"vested by right of escheat in the commonwealth.\"","subjects":[{"subject":"owner(s)\/citizens manumit\/free slave"},{"subject":"Property owners (Black)"},{"subject":"Education and literacy (FPOC)"},{"subject":"Bequest (enslaved)"},{"subject":"Enslaver (FPOC)"}]}]}