{"petition":[{"petition_analysis_number":"20884611","petition_url":"https:\/\/dlas.uncg.edu\/petitions\/petition\/20884611","state":"Louisiana","county":"St. John the Baptist","location_type":"Parish","file_day":20,"file_month":7,"file_year":1846,"filing_court":"District","end_day":8,"end_month":8,"end_year":1846,"ending_court":"District","result":"granted","enslaved_count":3,"fpoc_count":0,"total_people_count":6,"repository":"St. John the Baptist Parish Courthouse, Edgard, Louisiana","abstract":"Pelagie Rodrigue seeks to regain control of her dotal and paraphernal property from her husband, Pierre Faucheux.  Rodrigue asserts that, according to her marriage contract, she brought a slave woman named Yacinthe and $2,090 in promissory notes into her 1832 marriage to Faucheux.  Since then, Yacinthe has given birth to a child named Felicité, whom Pelagie considers part of her dotal property.  In addition, Pelagie inherited a slave woman named Janette from the estate of her mother, Marguerite Delatte.  She informs the court that her husband is in a “habitual state of madness and insanity” and has been “interdicted on account of his sanity” from the administration of his person and property.  Therefore, she asks the court to appoint a guardian for her husband and to order a separation of property.","subjects":[{"subject":"Diseases (mental)"},{"subject":"Diseases (physical)"},{"subject":"Assessed Value (enslaved)"},{"subject":"Prenuptial agreement"},{"subject":"Property owners (women)"},{"subject":"Dowry"}]}]}