{"petition":[{"petition_analysis_number":"11000004","petition_url":"https:\/\/dlas.uncg.edu\/petitions\/petition\/11000004","state":"Mississippi","county":"Adams","location_type":"County","filing_court":"unknown","result":"reported favorably","enslaved_count":1,"fpoc_count":0,"total_people_count":2,"repository":"Mississippi Department of Archives and History, Jackson, Mississippi","abstract":"\"Jerry a Man of Colour\" was born a slave and asks for his freedom as stipulated in the will of Colonel Benajah Osmun.  Jerry quotes the following clause from the will: \"Item for the faithful services of my boy Jerry, I hereby manumit and set him the said Jerry free from slavery, from and after my decease.\"","subjects":[{"subject":"owner(s)\/citizens manumit\/free slave"},{"subject":"Sues for freedom (enslaved)"}]}]}