{"petition":[{"petition_analysis_number":"21585820","petition_url":"https:\/\/dlas.uncg.edu\/petitions\/petition\/21585820","state":"Texas","county":"Brazoria","location_type":"County","file_day":26,"file_month":1,"file_year":1858,"filing_court":"Probate","end_day":0,"end_month":0,"end_year":0,"result":"","enslaved_count":4,"fpoc_count":0,"total_people_count":6,"repository":"Brazoria County Courthouse, Angleton, Texas","abstract":"A. T. Morris, guardian of Ann McNeel [McNeil] Westall, asks the court to approve his hiring out of four slaves in Westall's estate.  Morris assures the court that \"said hiring was fairly publicly & openly made.\"","subjects":[{"subject":"Hiring value (enslaved)"},{"subject":"Enslaver (minors)"}]}]}