{"petition":[{"petition_analysis_number":"20985325","petition_url":"https:\/\/dlas.uncg.edu\/petitions\/petition\/20985325","state":"Maryland","county":"Anne Arundel","location_type":"County","file_date_circa":"y","file_year":1853,"filing_court":"Orphans","end_day":8,"end_month":6,"end_year":1854,"ending_court":"Orphans","result":"granted","enslaved_count":9,"fpoc_count":0,"total_people_count":17,"repository":"Maryland State Archives, Annapolis, Maryland","abstract":"William Brewer Jr., administrator of the estate of the late William Rawlings, reports that he erroneously included a slave named James Pointer in the inventory of Rawlings's estate.  He explains that Pointer's former owner, William Sayer, has now produced a bill of sale in which Rawlings agreed to free Pointer in 1852.  Brewer asks the court to execute a deed of manumission for Pointer and to credit his inventory with the appraised value of the slave.","subjects":[{"subject":"owner(s)\/citizens manumit\/free slave"},{"subject":"Assessed Value (enslaved)"},{"subject":"Swapping (enslaved)"},{"subject":"Term slavery"},{"subject":"Enslaver (minors)"}]}]}