{"petition":[{"petition_analysis_number":"11682307","petition_url":"https:\/\/dlas.uncg.edu\/petitions\/petition\/11682307","state":"Virginia","county":"Fauquier","location_type":"County","file_day":4,"file_month":12,"file_year":1823,"filing_court":"Legislative","end_day":6,"end_month":12,"end_year":1823,"ending_court":"Legislative","result":"bill drawn","enslaved_count":2,"fpoc_count":1,"total_people_count":3,"repository":"Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia","abstract":"Free black Samuel Johnston seeks to emancipate his wife Patty and daughter Lucy, and asks that they be granted permanent residency in Fauquier County.  Through a \"life of activity & honesty,\" he had obtained to means to purchase his family.  Related petitions reveal that Samuel Johnston (also called Sam Johnson) was a man of mixed race who had been free as early as 1812.","subjects":[{"subject":"Purchased own family (FPOC)"},{"subject":"owner(s)\/citizens manumit\/free slave"},{"subject":"Enslaver (FPOC)"},{"subject":"State residency issues (FPOC)"},{"subject":"Frees own family (FPOC)"},{"subject":"Family kept together (Black)"}]}]}