{"petition":[{"petition_analysis_number":"20781705","petition_url":"https:\/\/dlas.uncg.edu\/petitions\/petition\/20781705","state":"Kentucky","county":"Fayette","location_type":"County","file_day":12,"file_month":4,"file_year":1817,"filing_court":"Circuit","enslaved_count":3,"fpoc_count":0,"total_people_count":7,"repository":"Kentucky Division of Libraries and Archives, Frankfort, Kentucky","abstract":"William Olds states that he and Patrick Watson contracted with Samuel McDowell for the purchase of a family of three slaves for the sum of $700.  Subsequently, Olds and Watson divided the slaves, with Olds taking the slave William and giving Watson his note for $160 to be applied towards the $700-debt to McDowell.  Although McDowell had assured them the slaves were healthy, William was suffering from a disease \"which rendered him of no value,\" and he died a few months after his purchase.  Rather than refunding Olds his note for $160, McDowell has prosecuted him in court.  Olds asks the court to suspend further proceedings in that judgment and to grant him relief.","subjects":[{"subject":"Death of enslaved (disease)"},{"subject":"Purchase\/Sale (enslaved family)"},{"subject":"Purchase\/Sale (enslaved children)"},{"subject":"Diseases (physical)"},{"subject":"Warranty (enslaved)"},{"subject":"Purchase\/Sale prices (enslaved)"},{"subject":"Family separated (Black)"},{"subject":"Family kept together (Black)"}]}]}