{"petition":[{"petition_analysis_number":"20981714","petition_url":"https:\/\/dlas.uncg.edu\/petitions\/petition\/20981714","state":"Maryland","county":"Anne Arundel","location_type":"County","file_day":26,"file_month":6,"file_year":1817,"filing_court":"Orphans","end_day":30,"end_month":7,"end_year":1817,"ending_court":"Chancery","result":"partially granted; appealed; granted","enslaved_count":33,"fpoc_count":2,"total_people_count":39,"repository":"Maryland State Archives, Annapolis, Maryland","abstract":"John Mercer, former guardian of Henry and Nicholas Darnall, free persons of color and minor heirs of slave owner Bennett [Bennitt] Darnall, wishes to settle his account with the new guardian Thomas Sellman.  Rezin Estep received a judgment against Mercer for \"a considerable deficiency in the estimated quantity\" of tobacco he bought from Bennett Darnall's estate.  Mercer seeks credit for $514.48, \"the difference between the Sum with which he was charged and that which has been recovered & assigned to Thomas Sellman.\"  He also wishes to pass a final account of the estate with the court.","subjects":[{"subject":"Property owners (Black)"},{"subject":"Seniors (enslaved)"},{"subject":"Enslaver (FPOC)"},{"subject":"Crops (tobacco)"},{"subject":"Diseases (physical)"},{"subject":"Assessed Value (enslaved)"},{"subject":"Enslaver (minors)"},{"subject":"Inventory (enslaved)"}]}]}