{"petition":[{"petition_analysis_number":"11681414","petition_url":"https:\/\/dlas.uncg.edu\/petitions\/petition\/11681414","state":"Virginia","county":"Northampton","location_type":"County","file_day":2,"file_month":11,"file_year":1814,"filing_court":"Legislative","result":"bill drawn","enslaved_count":0,"fpoc_count":0,"total_people_count":1,"repository":"Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia","abstract":"Nine months after Richard and Peggy Jones were married, Peggy gave birth to a girl.  At first Jones thought the child was his \"notwithstanding the darkness of its colour & its unusual appearance.\"  Later, however, it became clear that the baby could not have been fathered by a white man.  His wife eventually admitted that the girl's father was a man of color, a fact already known by many neighbors.  Jones seeks a divorce.","subjects":[{"subject":"Divorce"},{"subject":"Interracial relationships"}]}]}