{"petition":[{"petition_analysis_number":"20485301","petition_url":"https:\/\/dlas.uncg.edu\/petitions\/petition\/20485301","state":"District of Columbia","county":"Washington","location_type":"County","file_day":17,"file_month":12,"file_year":1853,"filing_court":"Circuit","end_day":3,"end_month":1,"end_year":1854,"ending_court":"Circuit","result":"granted","enslaved_count":0,"fpoc_count":5,"total_people_count":6,"repository":"National Archives, Washington, D. C.","abstract":"John Russell Barr, trustee of James Shaw, a free man of color, states that Shaw is insane and is incapable of managing his own affairs or his property.  Barr asks the court to establish a commission to determine whether or not Shaw is insane.","subjects":[{"subject":"Property owners (Black)"},{"subject":"Diseases (mental)"},{"subject":"Property owners (women)"}]}]}