{"petition":[{"petition_analysis_number":"20981507","petition_url":"https:\/\/dlas.uncg.edu\/petitions\/petition\/20981507","state":"Maryland","county":"Baltimore","location_type":"County","file_day":25,"file_month":9,"file_year":1815,"filing_court":"Chancery","end_day":25,"end_month":9,"end_year":1815,"ending_court":"Chancery","result":"granted","enslaved_count":0,"fpoc_count":0,"total_people_count":2,"repository":"Maryland State Archives, Annapolis, Maryland","abstract":"Richard Chenowith and Jacob Eichelberger ask the court to refer their case to an arbitrator.  The dispute involves a $159 debt owed by Chenowith to Eichelberger and secured by Chenowith's slave, Nicholas.  Chenowith contends that he has repaid the debt, but Eichelberger continues to employ the slave as a miller and will not return him.  Chenowith originally petitioned that the case be heard in Chancery Court.  Now both parties are asking \"that the said reference be made by a rule of this Court.\"","subjects":[{"subject":"Non-plantation\/Non-household work (enslaved)"},{"subject":"Skills (enslaved)"},{"subject":"Mortgage value (enslaved)"}]}]}