{"petition":[{"petition_analysis_number":"21279810","petition_url":"https:\/\/dlas.uncg.edu\/petitions\/petition\/21279810","state":"North Carolina","county":"Chowan","location_type":"County","file_day":8,"file_month":3,"file_year":1798,"filing_court":"County","enslaved_count":0,"fpoc_count":1,"total_people_count":4,"repository":"North Carolina Department of Archives and History, Raleigh, North Carolina","abstract":"Dick Dingley charges that Ichabod Jordan, who promised to allow him to purchase himself, reneged on the bargain and claims him as a slave.  \"Jordan has Renewed his Clame & has most Cruely Beaten your Petitioner,\" Dingley explains, and \"does all he Can to keep him the Said Petitioner in Slavery.\"  Dingley asks the court to affirm his status as a free person.","subjects":[{"subject":"Purchase of freedom"},{"subject":"Assault"},{"subject":"Purchase\/Sale prices (enslaved)"},{"subject":"Sues to recover freedom (FPOC)"}]}]}