{"petition":[{"petition_analysis_number":"20986131","petition_url":"https:\/\/dlas.uncg.edu\/petitions\/petition\/20986131","state":"Maryland","county":"Baltimore","location_type":"City","file_day":14,"file_month":11,"file_year":1861,"filing_court":"Orphans","end_day":14,"end_month":11,"end_year":1861,"ending_court":"Orphans","result":"granted","enslaved_count":0,"fpoc_count":2,"total_people_count":3,"repository":"Maryland State Archives, Annapolis, Maryland","abstract":"On 9 October 1861, Elizabeth Houston indentured her granddaughter, Rachel Ann Johnson, a free person of color, to Thomas Yearley.  Yearley reports that Johnson ran away and \"that upon her being brought back she was found to [be] sick and not improving.\"  The petitioner called in a doctor who \"found she was suffering from venerial.\"  Yearley asks the court to cancel the indenture and release him \"from all responsibility incurred in accepting said girl as an apprentice.\"","subjects":[{"subject":"Apprenticeship\/Indenture (FPOC)"},{"subject":"Freedom seekers"},{"subject":"Diseases (physical)"},{"subject":"Medical treatment"}]}]}