{"petition":[{"petition_analysis_number":"20882962","petition_url":"https:\/\/dlas.uncg.edu\/petitions\/petition\/20882962","state":"Louisiana","county":"Orleans","location_type":"Parish","file_date_circa":"y","file_day":4,"file_month":4,"file_year":1829,"filing_court":"Parish","end_day":4,"end_month":4,"end_year":1829,"ending_court":"Parish","result":"granted","enslaved_count":1,"fpoc_count":0,"total_people_count":3,"repository":"New Orleans Public Library, New Orleans, Louisiana","abstract":"Charles Wharton Edwards presents to the court that in 1828 he purchased from Margaret Cooper, the widow of Martin Thomas and now the wife of Benjamin Fox, a thirty-year-old female mulatto slave named Mary, also known as Patience.  He explains that the condition of sale bound him to emancipate Mary within one year of purchase; a condition with which he is now \"desirous\" to comply.  He asks the court to order the publication of the notices required by law.","subjects":[{"subject":"owner(s)\/citizens manumit\/free slave"},{"subject":"Purchased for emancipation "}]}]}