{"petition":[{"petition_analysis_number":"21482707","petition_url":"https:\/\/dlas.uncg.edu\/petitions\/petition\/21482707","state":"Tennessee","county":"Sumner","location_type":"County","file_day":13,"file_month":3,"file_year":1827,"filing_court":"Chancery","end_day":0,"end_month":0,"end_year":0,"result":"","enslaved_count":1,"fpoc_count":2,"total_people_count":6,"repository":"Tennessee State Library and Archives, Nashville, Tennessee","abstract":"Twenty-nine-year-old Elizabeth Gregory, an indentured servant, urges the court to cancel her indenture and to prevent her master, Thomas Gregory, from selling her as a slave.  Elizabeth avows that \"she was born free\" in North Carolina and that she is the daughter \"of Lucindy Perrigin a white woman with red hair.\"  Stating that there \"she had a husband ... by the name of Adam owned by William Whitemoor,\" she charges that said Whitemoor intended to take her and Adam's daughter with him to Tennessee, \"which induced her to follow the said Whitemoor.\"  She reports that he \"delivered her over to one Harvey Robertson & told him not to sell her as she was a free woman.\"  Elizabeth contends that said Robertson \"prevailed upon\" her \"to sign away her liberty for forty years,\" as \"it would be better for her if she would sign the indenture & if she did not something bad might befall.\"  She declares that Robertson \"about six years since delivered her over to one Thomas Gregory ... who has had her under his controul ever since.\"  Noting that said Gregory \"has but lately threaten to sell your oratrix,\" Elizabeth prays that \"said deed or indenture be ordered to be delivered up and cancelled and your oratrix be taken out of the power of the sd. Deft. and put at Liberty.\"","subjects":[{"subject":"FPOC sues white"},{"subject":"Apprenticeship\/Indenture (FPOC)"},{"subject":"Interracial relationships"},{"subject":"Family separated (Black)"}]}]}