{"petition":[{"petition_analysis_number":"20985953","petition_url":"https:\/\/dlas.uncg.edu\/petitions\/petition\/20985953","state":"Maryland","county":"Anne Arundel","location_type":"County","file_date_circa":"y","file_day":20,"file_month":4,"file_year":1859,"filing_court":"Orphans","end_day":20,"end_month":4,"end_year":1859,"ending_court":"Orphans","result":"granted","enslaved_count":1,"fpoc_count":0,"total_people_count":4,"repository":"Maryland State Archives, Annapolis, Maryland","abstract":"James W. Hunter, administrator of the estate of G. Grammar, asserts that he sold a sixty-year-old estate slave named Sam to James Allen for $216.  Allen alleges that he can prove that Sam was \"then diseased, if not actually insane.\"  Sam died a few months after the purchase.  Hunter and Allen have reached a compromise whereby Allen owes the estate half the purchase money plus court costs; Hunter asks the court to approve the arrangement.","subjects":[{"subject":"Death of enslaved (disease)"},{"subject":"Seniors (enslaved)"},{"subject":"Diseases (mental)"},{"subject":"Purchase\/Sale prices (enslaved)"}]}]}