{"petition":[{"petition_analysis_number":"21678904","petition_url":"https:\/\/dlas.uncg.edu\/petitions\/petition\/21678904","state":"Virginia","county":"Westmoreland","location_type":"County","file_date_circa":"y","file_day":0,"file_month":5,"file_year":1789,"filing_court":"Chancery","end_day":0,"end_month":6,"end_year":1789,"ending_court":"Chancery","result":"dissolved","enslaved_count":0,"fpoc_count":0,"total_people_count":2,"repository":"Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia","abstract":"In 1785, William Starke Jett, executor of the estate of the late Richard Bernard, employed Martin Fisher to \"over look\" the estate's plantation and slaves and to \"make crops of corn Tobacco & wheat.\"  When, as early as August, the overseer requested additional corn to feed the slaves and livestock, Jett dismissed him, and made a deduction from his wages.  Seeking to obtain a stay in a judgment secured against him by Fisher, Jett asks that the chancery court take up the matter.","subjects":[{"subject":"Overseers"},{"subject":"Crops (tobacco)"}]}]}