<petition><petition_analysis_number>21278201</petition_analysis_number><petition_url>https://dlas.uncg.edu/petitions/petition/21278201</petition_url><state>North Carolina</state><county>Perquimans</county><location_type>County</location_type><file_day>6</file_day><file_month>4</file_month><file_year>1782</file_year><filing_court>County</filing_court><enslaved_count>0</enslaved_count><fpoc_count>1</fpoc_count><total_people_count>23</total_people_count><repository>North Carolina Department of Archives and History, Raleigh, North Carolina</repository><abstract>A group of Perquimans County citizens ask that a manumitted "Servant Man Named Peter (Whose Mother was an Indian &amp; Father a Negroe)" be permitted to "remain Free &amp; unmolested as long as he behaves himself well."</abstract><subjects><subject>owner(s)/citizens manumit/free slave</subject><subject>Native Americans</subject><subject>Interracial relationships</subject></subjects></petition>