{"petition":[{"petition_analysis_number":"20981118","petition_url":"https:\/\/dlas.uncg.edu\/petitions\/petition\/20981118","state":"Maryland","county":"Baltimore","location_type":"County","file_date_circa":"y","file_month":7,"file_year":1811,"filing_court":"Orphans","enslaved_count":2,"fpoc_count":3,"total_people_count":8,"repository":"Maryland State Archives, Annapolis, Maryland","abstract":"Lucy Roe, a free person of color representing herself and her infant, James Roe, states that James Roche, administrator of the estate of her late husband, James Roe, has sold a slave named Daphne without the permission of the estate.  Lucy Roe adds that the return submitted by Roche shows a balance of about $90 due to the heirs.  However, Roe contends that if the estate were \"fully & honestly administered\" it would produce a much larger balance.  Roe asks the court to order Roche to pay the proper balance.  The defendant's response questions Lucy Roe's claim that she is a free person of color and, in fact, asserts that she and her son were the slaves of Stewart Brown of Baltimore at the time of the death of the intestate.","subjects":[{"subject":"Property owners (Black)"},{"subject":"Widow's dower"},{"subject":"Enslaver (FPOC)"},{"subject":"FPOC sues white"}]}]}