{"petition":[{"petition_analysis_number":"10382710","petition_url":"https:\/\/dlas.uncg.edu\/petitions\/petition\/10382710","state":"Delaware","county":"Kent","location_type":"County","file_day":29,"file_month":1,"file_year":1827,"filing_court":"Legislative","result":"House: read, referred","enslaved_count":0,"fpoc_count":0,"total_people_count":1,"repository":"Delaware State Archives, Dover, Delaware","abstract":"\"Having married in the State of Maryland,\" John Robertson of Kent County, Delaware, states that he \"received from his father-in-law\" an eight-year-old female slave on account of his marriage.  Robertson \"therefore prays your honourable body for a law authorizing him to bring the said negro girl into this State and hold her as a slave.\"","subjects":[{"subject":"Absentee owners"}]}]}