{"petition":[{"petition_analysis_number":"11584002","petition_url":"https:\/\/dlas.uncg.edu\/petitions\/petition\/11584002","state":"Texas","county":"Nacogdoches","location_type":"County","file_day":25,"file_month":11,"file_year":1840,"filing_court":"Petition","result":"referred to committees; provided for by law","enslaved_count":0,"fpoc_count":1,"total_people_count":11,"repository":"Texas State Library-Archives Division, Austin, Texas","abstract":"Fifty-five citizens of Nacogdoches County ask the legislature to exempt William Goyens, a free man of color, from the law requiring free people of color to emigrate.  Goyens \"has conducted himself as an honest industrious citizen has accumulated considerable property in lands &c and has been of great Service to the Country in our Indian difficulties.\"  They therefore pray that a law be passed \"authorizing the said William Goyens to reside permanently in the Republic and enjoy such privileges as are usual in like cases.\"","subjects":[{"subject":"Property owners (Black)"},{"subject":"State residency issues (FPOC)"},{"subject":"Native Americans"}]}]}