{"petition":[{"petition_analysis_number":"21278801","petition_url":"https:\/\/dlas.uncg.edu\/petitions\/petition\/21278801","state":"North Carolina","county":"Perquimans","location_type":"County","file_month":10,"file_year":1788,"filing_court":"County","enslaved_count":1,"fpoc_count":1,"total_people_count":3,"repository":"North Carolina Department of Archives and History, Raleigh, North Carolina","abstract":"Dick, \"at present confined in the Common Gaol of the County,\" represents that he \"has been taken up by Sundry Persons supposing him to have been a Slave the roperty of John Smith one of the people called Quakers and illegally liberated by him.\"  He further states that his \"grandmother, Betty was an Indian, a free woman by the Laws of Nature.\"  Dick, assisted by John Smith as his next friend, asks for an inquiry \"into the fact of he natural freedom of your petr.\"","subjects":[{"subject":"owner(s)\/citizens manumit\/free slave"},{"subject":"Sues for freedom (enslaved)"},{"subject":"Jails\/Workhouses"},{"subject":"Churches"},{"subject":"Native Americans"}]}]}