{"petition":[{"petition_analysis_number":"11583811","petition_url":"https:\/\/dlas.uncg.edu\/petitions\/petition\/11583811","state":"Texas","county":"Red River","location_type":"County","file_day":17,"file_month":3,"file_year":1838,"filing_court":"Petition","enslaved_count":0,"fpoc_count":1,"total_people_count":11,"repository":"Texas State Library-Archives Division, Austin, Texas","abstract":"Fifty-five residents support the request for citizenship of Edmund J. Carter, a free-born man of color who is honest, industrious, and \"manfully Competent to discharge faithfully any of the privileges of citisenShip.\"  Carter had emigrated from Tennessee.","subjects":[{"subject":"State residency issues (FPOC)"},{"subject":"Westward migration"},{"subject":"Enfranchisement\/Disenfranchisement"}]}]}