{"petition":[{"petition_analysis_number":"20986102","petition_url":"https:\/\/dlas.uncg.edu\/petitions\/petition\/20986102","state":"Maryland","county":"Anne Arundel","location_type":"County","file_day":30,"file_month":3,"file_year":1861,"filing_court":"Equity","end_day":26,"end_month":5,"end_year":1863,"ending_court":"Equity","result":"granted","enslaved_count":0,"fpoc_count":13,"total_people_count":14,"repository":"Maryland State Archives, Annapolis, Maryland","abstract":"Robert Urquehart, a free person of color, died in July 1860 possessed of a house and lot in Annapolis.  The deceased acquired the house from Henry H. Lockwood and his wife by a deed dated 19 July 1858.  The petitioners allege that \"the aforesaid real estate is not susceptible of an advantageous partition among the parties entitled thereto\" but that it would be to the \"advantage of all the parties that the same be sold and the proceeds of said sale distributed among the parties.\"  The petitioners ask the court to effect a sale of Urquehart's real estate with the proceeds being distributed among the heirs.","subjects":[{"subject":"Property owners (Black)"},{"subject":"Widow's dower"}]}]}