{"petition":[{"petition_analysis_number":"21484726","petition_url":"https:\/\/dlas.uncg.edu\/petitions\/petition\/21484726","state":"Tennessee","county":"Marshall","location_type":"County","file_date_circa":"y","file_day":0,"file_month":3,"file_year":1847,"filing_court":"Chancery","end_date_circa":"y","end_day":0,"end_month":5,"end_year":1847,"ending_court":"Chancery","result":"granted","enslaved_count":1,"fpoc_count":0,"total_people_count":4,"repository":"Tennessee State Library and Archives, Nashville, Tennessee","abstract":"Samuel W. Penn declares that he is the court-appointed guardian of Oliver Payne, \"an idiot.\"  Penn avows that \"his said ward is the owner of a negro man named William and that this [is] all the property he has.\"  Fearing \"that in case of death or any accident befalling said negro that his [Payne's] chance of support ... would be entirely cut off and be thrown a burden upon his relatives,\"  Penn asks the court for permission to sell William, who is \"quite valuable,\" for a sum \"the interest of which will be sufficient to support his said ward and will besides give a guarantee for his regular support.\"  \r\n","subjects":[{"subject":"Diseases (mental)"},{"subject":"Assessed Value (enslaved)"},{"subject":"Purchase\/Sale prices (enslaved)"}]}]}