{"petition":[{"petition_analysis_number":"20684806","petition_url":"https:\/\/dlas.uncg.edu\/petitions\/petition\/20684806","state":"Georgia","county":"Jones","location_type":"County","file_year":1848,"filing_court":"Inferior","end_year":1848,"ending_court":"Inferior","result":"granted","enslaved_count":0,"fpoc_count":13,"total_people_count":13,"repository":"Jones County Courthouse, Gray, Georgia","abstract":"As free people of color, the Cousins family -- Sally, Arnold, Nancy, Emily, Thomas, Bessey, James, Missouri, and Martha -- petitions the court to appoint Seth M. Mills as their new guardian. [The following court notation appears directly below the order granting the Cousinses' petition:  \"Ordered that Nancy Bowman & her three children & Polly Rogers, Philip Bowman, & Catherine Smothers & her four children be registered as free persons of color -- Evidence of their freedom having heretofore been filed in office.\"","subjects":[{"subject":"Guardianship (FPOC)"}]}]}