{"petition":[{"petition_analysis_number":"20885289","petition_url":"https:\/\/dlas.uncg.edu\/petitions\/petition\/20885289","state":"Louisiana","county":"Pointe Coupee","location_type":"Parish","file_day":14,"file_month":12,"file_year":1852,"filing_court":"District","end_day":15,"end_month":1,"end_year":1853,"ending_court":"District","result":"granted","enslaved_count":2,"fpoc_count":0,"total_people_count":4,"repository":"Pointe Coupee Parish Courthouse, New Roads, Louisiana","abstract":"Arthur Adams represents that Henry, Sarah, and Worth, orphan \"natural\" children of the late Carmelite Key, are under the age of ten and have no relatives.  He therefore prays that a meeting of the children’s friends be convened to appoint a tutor and an “under tutor.”  Arthur Adams also prays for an inventory of the late Carmelite’s property, which includes a female slave named Elsey and her three-year-old infant daughter.","subjects":[{"subject":"Orphans"},{"subject":"Purchase\/Sale (enslaved family)"},{"subject":"Auctions"},{"subject":"Purchase\/Sale prices (enslaved)"},{"subject":"Illegitimacy "},{"subject":"Family kept together (Black)"}]}]}