<petition><petition_analysis_number>20380053</petition_analysis_number><petition_url>https://dlas.uncg.edu/petitions/petition/20380053</petition_url><state>Delaware</state><county>Kent</county><location_type>County</location_type><file_month>5</file_month><file_year>1800</file_year><filing_court>Common Pleas</filing_court><result>partially granted</result><enslaved_count>1</enslaved_count><fpoc_count>0</fpoc_count><total_people_count>2</total_people_count><repository>Delaware State Archives, Dover, Delaware</repository><abstract>Nutter Kellem, a woman of color, states "that she now is &amp; has been wrongfully claimed, held &amp; retained in slavery, by a certain Mary Dawson, who pretends to be her mistress."  The petitioner prays that Dawson be summoned to answer her complaint and be required "to abide the Judgement &amp; Decree, which the Court shall make."</abstract><subjects><subject>Sues for freedom (enslaved)</subject><subject>FPOC sues white</subject></subjects></petition>