{"petition":[{"petition_analysis_number":"21285022","petition_url":"https:\/\/dlas.uncg.edu\/petitions\/petition\/21285022","state":"North Carolina","county":"Wayne","location_type":"County","file_year":1850,"filing_court":"Superior","end_date_circa":"y","end_year":1850,"ending_court":"Superior","result":"granted","enslaved_count":1,"fpoc_count":2,"total_people_count":6,"repository":"North Carolina Department of Archives and History, Raleigh, North Carolina","abstract":"Married at age twelve to a thirty-year-old woman, Daniel Griffin, after twelve years of marriage, requests a divorce on the grounds that his wife was \"guilty of adultery with diverse persons,\" including \"a certain mulatto fellow named William Baker.\"  In addition, she also gave birth to two bastard children.","subjects":[{"subject":"Adultery"},{"subject":"Divorce"},{"subject":"Interracial relationships"},{"subject":"Illegitimacy "}]}]}