{"petition":[{"petition_analysis_number":"11682610","petition_url":"https:\/\/dlas.uncg.edu\/petitions\/petition\/11682610","state":"Virginia","county":"Richmond","location_type":"City","file_day":28,"file_month":12,"file_year":1826,"filing_court":"Legislative","end_day":23,"end_month":1,"end_year":1827,"ending_court":"Legislative","result":"rejected","enslaved_count":0,"fpoc_count":2,"total_people_count":3,"repository":"Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia","abstract":"Forty-five-year-old Betsey joins her twenty-year-old son John in representing that \"by the will of their deceased & late master B W Coleman, they are emancipated & set free & ample provisions made for their support; so as to prevent their becoming a charge to the community.\"  They further avow that \"this act of kindness on the part of Mr Coleman was dictated by a deep sense, of the good character of your Petitioners, & gratitude for their fidelity to him in his last long & painfull illness.\" The petitioners therefore pray \"your Honorable bodies, to pass a law granting to them the right of remaining in the Commonwealth, as free people of Color.\"","subjects":[{"subject":"owner(s)\/citizens manumit\/free slave"},{"subject":"Bequest (enslaved)"},{"subject":"State residency issues (FPOC)"}]}]}