{"petition":[{"petition_analysis_number":"20982102","petition_url":"https:\/\/dlas.uncg.edu\/petitions\/petition\/20982102","state":"Maryland","county":"Baltimore","location_type":"County","file_day":23,"file_month":4,"file_year":1821,"filing_court":"Orphans","enslaved_count":1,"fpoc_count":0,"total_people_count":3,"repository":"Maryland State Archives, Annapolis, Maryland","abstract":"Sarah McAllistor asks the court for permission to sell her deceased husband's slave, Vachel Scott.  Scott ran away a year ago, and Sarah believes that he is \"on board of some privateer.\"  Someone has offered to pay her the appraised value of $550 for the slave; she asks the court's permission to accept the offer.","subjects":[{"subject":"Ships"},{"subject":"Freedom seekers"},{"subject":"Assessed Value (enslaved)"}]}]}