{"petition":[{"petition_analysis_number":"11684105","petition_url":"https:\/\/dlas.uncg.edu\/petitions\/petition\/11684105","state":"Virginia","county":"Preston","location_type":"County","file_day":9,"file_month":12,"file_year":1841,"filing_court":"Legislative","end_day":31,"end_month":12,"end_year":1842,"ending_court":"Legislative","result":"rejected","enslaved_count":0,"fpoc_count":0,"total_people_count":1,"repository":"Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia","abstract":"Jacob Plum asks for a divorce from his wife Mary Jane who a number of years prior to the filing of his petition gave birth to a mulatto child and continued to live with him until she recently abandoned their domicile.  She has now been convicted of larceny and sent to the penitentiary.","subjects":[{"subject":"Adultery"},{"subject":"Divorce"},{"subject":"Jails\/Workhouses"},{"subject":"Interracial relationships"},{"subject":"Abandonment "},{"subject":"Illegitimacy "}]}]}