{"petition":[{"petition_analysis_number":"11280003","petition_url":"https:\/\/dlas.uncg.edu\/petitions\/petition\/11280003","state":"North Carolina","county":"Edgecombe","location_type":"County","file_day":18,"file_month":10,"file_year":1800,"filing_court":"Petition","result":"rejected","enslaved_count":0,"fpoc_count":0,"total_people_count":1,"repository":"North Carolina Department of Archives and History, Raleigh, North Carolina","abstract":"William Moore requests compensation for the loss of a horse that died during a pursuit of outlaws.  He explains that, \"from a wish to suppress Villiany,\" he participated in the apprehension and jailing of \"men of notorious Characters\" who were later convicted of \"forgery & Stealin of Negros and Selling them.\"  Moore further reveals that his \"excessive rideing & great exertions ... killed or at least Occationed the death of a valuable Horse\" that cost him $210; said loss forced him to mortgage his \"One negroe and he a very Valuable fellow.\"  As a cripple, Moore claims that he is \"altogether Unable to work\" and support his \"very large & helpless family of small children.\"  He therefore requests that he receive \"such an allowance from the public of said State as may be Adequate to his losses.\"","subjects":[{"subject":"Jails\/Workhouses"},{"subject":"Forgery"},{"subject":"Theft of enslaved"}]}]}