<petition><petition_analysis_number>20981513</petition_analysis_number><petition_url>https://dlas.uncg.edu/petitions/petition/20981513</petition_url><state>Maryland</state><county>Anne Arundel</county><location_type>County</location_type><file_day>9</file_day><file_month>2</file_month><file_year>1815</file_year><filing_court>Orphans</filing_court><end_day>9</end_day><end_month>2</end_month><end_year>1815</end_year><ending_court>Orphans</ending_court><result>granted</result><enslaved_count>1</enslaved_count><fpoc_count>0</fpoc_count><total_people_count>3</total_people_count><repository>Maryland State Archives, Annapolis, Maryland</repository><abstract>Emily Caton, administratrix of Eleanor Browning's estate, claims "that there is great danger" that Frisby, an estate slave, "will runaway to the enemy" if he is not sold "to a master more capable of securing him than your petitioner."  Since "neither your petitioner nor her ward ... are at all qualified to have the direction and Government of such a head strong ungovernable boy," Caton asks that she be allowed to sell the slave.</abstract><subjects><subject>Freedom seekers</subject><subject>Insubordination</subject><subject>Management (enslaved)</subject><subject>Enslaver (minors)</subject></subjects></petition>