{"petition":[{"petition_analysis_number":"20882170","petition_url":"https:\/\/dlas.uncg.edu\/petitions\/petition\/20882170","state":"Louisiana","county":"Orleans","location_type":"Parish","file_day":25,"file_month":6,"file_year":1821,"filing_court":"Parish","end_day":26,"end_month":6,"end_year":1821,"ending_court":"Parish","result":"granted","enslaved_count":1,"fpoc_count":0,"total_people_count":3,"repository":"New Orleans Public Library, New Orleans, Louisiana","abstract":"Jean Quessart is attorney-in-fact of a resident of France named A. Sallet.  He presents to the court that Sallet wishes to emancipate his thirty-two-year-old male slave named Nelson, who has \"always kept a good conduct and never offered to run away.\"  Quessart therefore asks the court to order that \"all the proper notices required by law\" be posted up by the sheriff.","subjects":[{"subject":"owner(s)\/citizens manumit\/free slave"},{"subject":"Absentee owners"}]}]}