{"petition":[{"petition_analysis_number":"21279708","petition_url":"https:\/\/dlas.uncg.edu\/petitions\/petition\/21279708","state":"North Carolina","county":"Perquimans","location_type":"County","file_month":2,"file_year":1797,"filing_court":"County","enslaved_count":1,"fpoc_count":1,"total_people_count":14,"repository":"North Carolina Department of Archives and History, Raleigh, North Carolina","abstract":"Twelve residents of Perquimans County request that Doctor Tom be permitted to free his wife Philliss for \"Merritorious Services.\"  She is \"very Servicable in the neighbourhood both as a Midwife and Doctress,\" they explain, and has performed \"Some Surpriseing Cures.\"  The petitioners inform the court that Doctor Tom had purchased his wife.","subjects":[{"subject":"Purchased own family (FPOC)"},{"subject":"owner(s)\/citizens manumit\/free slave"},{"subject":"Enslaver (FPOC)"},{"subject":"Skills (enslaved)"},{"subject":"Medical treatment"},{"subject":"Frees own family (FPOC)"}]}]}