{"petition":[{"petition_analysis_number":"11081501","petition_url":"https:\/\/dlas.uncg.edu\/petitions\/petition\/11081501","state":"Mississippi","county":"Wilkinson","location_type":"County","file_year":1815,"filing_court":"Legislative","result":"denied","enslaved_count":1,"fpoc_count":0,"total_people_count":3,"repository":"Mississippi Department of Archives and History, Jackson, Mississippi","abstract":"The petitioner, Benajah Randle, informs the court that a few months earlier, an American Indian brought to him a slave by the name of Toney, who, after questioning, was found to belong to one John Brown of Wilkinson County.  Randle, mindful of his duties as a good citizen, took the slave over to Washington jail in Adams County.  The slave died in jail a short time later.  Illiterate, poor, and with a large family, Randle seeks reimbursement for expenses incurred in fulfilling his responsibilities.","subjects":[{"subject":"Jails\/Workhouses"},{"subject":"Freedom seekers"},{"subject":"Native Americans"}]}]}