{"petition":[{"petition_analysis_number":"11384706","petition_url":"https:\/\/dlas.uncg.edu\/petitions\/petition\/11384706","state":"South Carolina","county":"Barnwell","location_type":"District\/Parish","file_month":11,"file_year":1847,"filing_court":"Circa","enslaved_count":0,"fpoc_count":0,"total_people_count":2,"repository":"South Carolina Department of Archives and History, Columbia, South Carolina","abstract":"Marmaduke Jones requests a divorce or annulment of his marriage to Ann Ross Jones on the grounds that she gave birth to a \"mulatto\" child.  Marmaduke maintains that the couple married on 13 January 1847 and that on 24 August 1847 his wife \"was brought to bed, and then and there delivered of a mulatto child.\"  The petitioner, \"well knowing (under the circumstances above set forth) that it is impossible for [him] to live with the said Ann, as husband and wife,\" therefore prays that he \"may be released from the said Ann and that [he] and the said Ann may stand in the same relation to Each other, as though they never had been married.\"","subjects":[{"subject":"Divorce"},{"subject":"Interracial relationships"}]}]}