{"petition":[{"petition_analysis_number":"21282917","petition_url":"https:\/\/dlas.uncg.edu\/petitions\/petition\/21282917","state":"North Carolina","county":"Granville","location_type":"County","file_day":7,"file_month":2,"file_year":1829,"filing_court":"Superior","end_month":3,"end_year":1831,"ending_court":"Superior","result":"granted","enslaved_count":0,"fpoc_count":0,"total_people_count":2,"repository":"North Carolina Department of Archives and History, Raleigh, North Carolina","abstract":"Married in 1820, Elizabeth Wheeler complains that her husband Moses, \"without any provocation,\" abandoned her and their son.  She accused him adulterous connections with a \"young woman of pleasure in the neighbourhood.\"  Elizabeth and her child moved in with her father, Thomas Jenkins, until he died, when she inherited a number of slaves.  Elizabeth now seeks a divorce.","subjects":[{"subject":"Adultery"},{"subject":"Divorce"},{"subject":"Domestic violence"},{"subject":"Assault"},{"subject":"Abandonment "},{"subject":"Sex workers\/Promiscuity "},{"subject":"Property owners (women)"}]}]}