<petition><petition_analysis_number>20979704</petition_analysis_number><petition_url>https://dlas.uncg.edu/petitions/petition/20979704</petition_url><state>Maryland</state><county>Baltimore</county><location_type>County</location_type><file_month>11</file_month><file_year>1797</file_year><filing_court>Oyer and Terminer</filing_court><end_month>3</end_month><end_year>1800</end_year><ending_court>Oyer and Terminer</ending_court><result>granted</result><enslaved_count>2</enslaved_count><fpoc_count>0</fpoc_count><total_people_count>4</total_people_count><repository>Maryland State Archives, Annapolis, Maryland</repository><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 &amp; 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."</abstract><subjects><subject>Sues for freedom (enslaved)</subject><subject>Native Americans</subject></subjects></petition>