{"petition":[{"petition_analysis_number":"11381906","petition_url":"https:\/\/dlas.uncg.edu\/petitions\/petition\/11381906","state":"South Carolina","county":"Sumter","location_type":"District\/Parish","file_day":20,"file_month":11,"file_year":1819,"filing_court":"Petition","result":"granted","enslaved_count":0,"fpoc_count":0,"total_people_count":1,"repository":"South Carolina Department of Archives and History, Columbia, South Carolina","abstract":"William Vaughn explains that he \"removed with Twelve of his Negroes to the Alabama Territory, on the 2nd Decr 1818; his minor son remained in South Carolina where he served \"as his agent.\"  Vaughn states that his said son \"neglected to make a return to the Tax Collector, in the time prescribed by Law, in consequence of which failure, he was double Taxed on his Negroes remaining in this state & on his Land & treble taxed on the Twelve Negroes removed to the Western Country.\"  Citing that he paid taxes on said slaves in Alabama, the petitioner asks that he be credited $17.35, \"the usual tax on said property.\"","subjects":[{"subject":"Taxation (enslaved)"},{"subject":"Westward migration"}]}]}