{"petition":[{"petition_analysis_number":"11482912","petition_url":"https:\/\/dlas.uncg.edu\/petitions\/petition\/11482912","state":"Tennessee","county":"Maury","location_type":"County","file_year":1829,"filing_court":"Archives","enslaved_count":0,"fpoc_count":0,"total_people_count":1,"repository":"Tennessee State Library and Archives, Nashville, Tennessee","abstract":"John Rich of Maury County seeks a divorce from Susanah Moore Rich on the grounds that she \"was delivered of a mulatto child\" four months after their marriage.  Revealing that he cannot pay \"the charge of a lawyer and the fees of court ... without injury to himself,\" Rich therefore \"prays your Honorable boddy to pass a law divorcing him from the said Susanah.\"","subjects":[{"subject":"Adultery"},{"subject":"Divorce"},{"subject":"Interracial relationships"}]}]}