{"petition":[{"petition_analysis_number":"11280301","petition_url":"https:\/\/dlas.uncg.edu\/petitions\/petition\/11280301","state":"North Carolina","county":"Beaufort","location_type":"County","file_day":1,"file_month":11,"file_year":1803,"filing_court":"Petition","end_day":30,"end_month":11,"end_year":1803,"ending_court":"Legislative","result":"rejected","enslaved_count":0,"fpoc_count":0,"total_people_count":2,"repository":"North Carolina Department of Archives and History, Raleigh, North Carolina","abstract":"Arnold and Euphan Rhodes, though husband and wife, have lived apart for two years.  As there is no hope of reconciliation, they jointly pray that a law may be passed \"disolving the bands of marriage between your said petitioners & thereby ... Divorce them from Each other -- leaving Each free to Intermarry again to purchase, receive, & dispose of their seperate propperty.\"","subjects":[{"subject":"Divorce"}]}]}