{"petition":[{"petition_analysis_number":"21278501","petition_url":"https:\/\/dlas.uncg.edu\/petitions\/petition\/21278501","state":"North Carolina","county":"Chowan","location_type":"County","file_day":26,"file_month":9,"file_year":1785,"filing_court":"County","enslaved_count":0,"fpoc_count":0,"total_people_count":4,"repository":"North Carolina Department of Archives and History, Raleigh, North Carolina","abstract":"The petitioners seek to form their own slave patrol in order to keep slaves \"in better Subjection.\"  There are \"a number of Negroes,\" they assert, \"Passing & repassing at all times of the Night Without Liberty from their Owners much to the Injury of our property.\"","subjects":[{"subject":"Militias\/Patrols"}]}]}