{"petition":[{"petition_analysis_number":"11683008","petition_url":"https:\/\/dlas.uncg.edu\/petitions\/petition\/11683008","state":"Virginia","county":"Goochland","location_type":"County","file_day":9,"file_month":12,"file_year":1830,"filing_court":"Legislative","end_day":18,"end_month":12,"end_year":1830,"ending_court":"Legislative","result":"bill drawn","enslaved_count":0,"fpoc_count":3,"total_people_count":3,"repository":"Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia","abstract":"Jacob Sampson, a free man of color, represents that \"he married Frankey Cross, the acknowledged & reputed child of Moses Cross,\" a free man of color.  He further states that his said father-in-law died during the present year, \"leaving no other child who is free, than the wife of your Petitioner -- Nor has the said Moses Cross, any relative who can inherit his estate.\"  The petitioner is advised that the personal estate of said Cross \"will pass & be vested in the Commonwealth, for the benefit of the President & Directors of the Literary Fund,\" thus depriving \"his child & grandchildren of that which will be inconsiderable to the Commonwealth, but which will be of great consequence to them.\"  Sampson therefore prays that the General Assembly \"release to him & his wife, all the claim of the Commonwealth, to the undisposed of residuum of the estate of Moses Cross, after the payment of his just debts.\"","subjects":[{"subject":"Property owners (Black)"},{"subject":"Charitable organizations"},{"subject":"Illegitimacy "}]}]}