{"petition":[{"petition_analysis_number":"21085740","petition_url":"https:\/\/dlas.uncg.edu\/petitions\/petition\/21085740","state":"Mississippi","county":"Noxubee","location_type":"County","file_day":2,"file_month":4,"file_year":1857,"filing_court":"Circuit","end_day":1,"end_month":4,"end_year":1857,"ending_court":"Circuit","result":"granted","enslaved_count":4,"fpoc_count":0,"total_people_count":11,"repository":"Noxubee County Courthouse, Macon, Mississippi","abstract":"Eliza W. Jones joins her husband Robert in seeking an injunction against the sheriff and various creditors to stop them from selling Eliza's slave Lucy; the petitioners declare that Lucy was seized to satisfy debts owed by Robert.  They further avow that Lucy is Eliza's separate property and for her \"exclusive use\" and that \"Robert B Jones has no title or interest in said slave Lucy.\"  The Joneses insist that Lucy \"is a family negro, and of great value,\" and if sold, will likely be removed out of the court's jurisdiction, \"which lends to the manifest wrong and injury of your Oratrix.\"","subjects":[{"subject":"Seniors (enslaved)"},{"subject":"Westward migration"},{"subject":"Title dispute (enslaved)"},{"subject":"Purchase\/Sale prices (enslaved)"},{"subject":"White attachment (enslaved)"},{"subject":"Property owners (women)"}]}]}