{"petition":[{"petition_analysis_number":"20184701","petition_url":"https:\/\/dlas.uncg.edu\/petitions\/petition\/20184701","state":"Alabama","county":"Mobile","location_type":"County","file_day":6,"file_month":3,"file_year":1847,"filing_court":"Chancery","end_date_circa":"y","end_year":1847,"ending_court":"Chancery","result":"dismissed","enslaved_count":0,"fpoc_count":0,"total_people_count":3,"repository":"University of South Alabama Archives, Mobile, Alabama","abstract":"In 1827, Harriet Linder married Daniel Johnston, but for many years he did nothing to support the family.   Besides being shiftless, Harriet asserts, Daniel is a man with \"a high temper and revengeful disposition\" who does nothing for their six children.  Harriet owns, by inheritance a small amount of real property--land in Baldwin and Mobile counties.  She also owns four slaves, including a woman and her three small children.  She fears that, if she and her husband remain married, she will lose this small estate.   Harriet seeks a divorce, and asks that her husband's \"right, title, and interest\" in the land and slaves be turned over to her.","subjects":[{"subject":"Divorce"},{"subject":"Domestic violence"},{"subject":"Abandonment "},{"subject":"Property owners (women)"}]}]}