{"petition":[{"petition_analysis_number":"10382920","petition_url":"https:\/\/dlas.uncg.edu\/petitions\/petition\/10382920","state":"Delaware","county":"","file_day":6,"file_month":2,"file_year":1829,"filing_court":"Legislative","result":"House: read, referred","enslaved_count":2,"fpoc_count":0,"total_people_count":3,"repository":"Delaware State Archives, Dover, Delaware","abstract":"\"Having two Servants in Delaware,\" Thomas Handy, a Maryland resident, is \"anxious to remove them from Delaware into the State of maryland.\"  He therefore prays that a law be passed \"authorising your Petitioner to remove from the State of Delaware into the State of Maryland negroes Clem and George to have & hold them as his proper slaves.\"","subjects":[{"subject":"Absentee owners"}]}]}