<petition><petition_analysis_number>20379102</petition_analysis_number><petition_url>https://dlas.uncg.edu/petitions/petition/20379102</petition_url><state>Delaware</state><county>New Castle</county><location_type>County</location_type><file_day>22</file_day><file_month>11</file_month><file_year>1791</file_year><filing_court>County</filing_court><end_day>23</end_day><end_month>11</end_month><end_year>1791</end_year><ending_court>County</ending_court><result>granted</result><enslaved_count>1</enslaved_count><fpoc_count>0</fpoc_count><total_people_count>2</total_people_count><repository>Delaware State Archives, Dover, Delaware</repository><abstract>Isaac Stidham seeks a license to export his slave Sam, "a wicked and ungovernable Servant; and from whose Service, but Small advantage or Satisfaction can be derived."  Stidham charges that Sam "hath wickedly attempted to murder, a negro woman the Property of your Petitioner; and hath made use of Language purporting to the Same Effect, against Your Petitioner."</abstract><subjects><subject>Homicide</subject><subject>Theft by enslaved</subject><subject>Insubordination</subject><subject>Clandestine economy </subject><subject>Management (enslaved)</subject></subjects></petition>