{"petition":[{"petition_analysis_number":"11681602","petition_url":"https:\/\/dlas.uncg.edu\/petitions\/petition\/11681602","state":"Virginia","county":"Fauquier","location_type":"County","file_day":16,"file_month":11,"file_year":1816,"filing_court":"Legislative","end_day":23,"end_month":11,"end_year":1816,"ending_court":"Legislative","result":"reasonable","enslaved_count":0,"fpoc_count":0,"total_people_count":1,"repository":"Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia","abstract":"Five months after her marriage to Abraham Newton, Nancy Gray gave birth to a mulatto child.  She admitted that the baby was conceived by a black man in the neighborhood.  Nancy has left her husband, and she, her mother, and the baby have left for Ohio.  Abraham Newton, the husband, sues for divorce.","subjects":[{"subject":"Divorce"},{"subject":"Westward migration"},{"subject":"Interracial relationships"},{"subject":"Abandonment "},{"subject":"Illegitimacy "}]}]}