{"petition":[{"petition_analysis_number":"20979704","petition_url":"https:\/\/dlas.uncg.edu\/petitions\/petition\/20979704","state":"Maryland","county":"Baltimore","location_type":"County","file_month":11,"file_year":1797,"filing_court":"Oyer and Terminer","end_month":3,"end_year":1800,"ending_court":"Oyer and Terminer","result":"granted","enslaved_count":2,"fpoc_count":0,"total_people_count":4,"repository":"Maryland State Archives, Annapolis, Maryland","abstract":"Margaret Creek says that she is \"the daughter of Rachel who was the daughter of an Indian woman named Moll or Mary,\" a free woman.  Although Margaret \"has been entitled to Freedom from her birth,\" she is \"deprived thereof & held as a Slave by William Wilkins of the Town of Baltimore.\"  Margaret asks the court to subpoena Wilkins and to remedy her situation \"as may seem right.\"","subjects":[{"subject":"Sues for freedom (enslaved)"},{"subject":"Native Americans"}]}]}