{"petition":[{"petition_analysis_number":"21279809","petition_url":"https:\/\/dlas.uncg.edu\/petitions\/petition\/21279809","state":"North Carolina","county":"Chowan","location_type":"County","file_day":8,"file_month":3,"file_year":1798,"filing_court":"County","enslaved_count":1,"fpoc_count":0,"total_people_count":59,"repository":"North Carolina Department of Archives and History, Raleigh, North Carolina","abstract":"Residents of Chowan County say that they know Dick Dingley, a man who purchased his freedom from Ishabod Jordan and was set free by the latter three years ago, is a \"Peaceable fellow & behaves himself orde[r]ly & to the Satisfaction of all his neighborhood.\"  Ichabod Jordan, they charge, is trying to reclaim Dick as his slave, and they ask the court to redress the wrong.","subjects":[{"subject":"Purchase of freedom"},{"subject":"Sues to recover freedom (FPOC)"}]}]}