{"petition":[{"petition_analysis_number":"21279807","petition_url":"https:\/\/dlas.uncg.edu\/petitions\/petition\/21279807","state":"North Carolina","county":"Craven","location_type":"County","file_month":6,"file_year":1798,"filing_court":"County","end_month":6,"end_year":1798,"ending_court":"County","result":"granted","enslaved_count":1,"fpoc_count":0,"total_people_count":7,"repository":"North Carolina Department of Archives and History, Raleigh, North Carolina","abstract":"Ann G. Daly, administratrix of the late John Daly, Esq. and guardian to his minor children, ask permission to emancipate a twenty-year-old mulatto slave name Mary.  According to Ann Daly, and her co-petitioners, Robert Donnell, his wife Eliza Donnell, and John Sears, Mary \"has always been reputed to be\" John Daly's daughter.  She \"is a girl of excellent character,\" the petitioners write, and is \"industrious Sober & honest & has always behaved dutifully and affectionately towards the whole family.\"","subjects":[{"subject":"owner(s)\/citizens manumit\/free slave"},{"subject":"Interracial socializing "},{"subject":"Illegitimacy "}]}]}