{"petition":[{"petition_analysis_number":"11280305","petition_url":"https:\/\/dlas.uncg.edu\/petitions\/petition\/11280305","state":"North Carolina","county":"Beaufort","location_type":"County","file_day":16,"file_month":11,"file_year":1803,"filing_court":"Petition","result":"Senate: read, referred","enslaved_count":0,"fpoc_count":0,"total_people_count":4,"repository":"North Carolina Department of Archives and History, Raleigh, North Carolina","abstract":"The relatives of Euphan Alston Rhodes ask that the said Euphan be granted a divorce from Captain Arnold Rhodes.  They recount that their relative married Rhodes in 1795 when she was seventeen years old; at the time, Euphan possessed \"a valuable Estate in Lands &c besides a number of valuable Slaves.”  The petitioners lament that the said Rhodes wasted his bride's property shortly after their marriage, losing all the slaves and a large portion of the real estate.  They further decry that Rhodes has \"abandoned himself to Idleness, Intoxication, gambling &c.\"  Of the belief that \"a mutual loathing possess them Each towards the other,\" the petitioners pray \"that a Law may be passed by your Honorable body disolving the band of marriage between the Said Arnold, & Euphan Alston Rhodes & thereby fully Divorcing them for Ever from Each other.\"","subjects":[{"subject":"Divorce"},{"subject":"Domestic violence"},{"subject":"Drunkenness"},{"subject":"Gambling"}]}]}