{"petition":[{"petition_analysis_number":"21285815","petition_url":"https:\/\/dlas.uncg.edu\/petitions\/petition\/21285815","state":"North Carolina","county":"Randolph","location_type":"County","file_day":29,"file_month":9,"file_year":1858,"filing_court":"Superior","end_date_circa":"y","end_year":1859,"ending_court":"Superior","result":"granted","enslaved_count":0,"fpoc_count":3,"total_people_count":5,"repository":"North Carolina Department of Archives and History, Raleigh, North Carolina","abstract":"When he was sixteen, Benjamin F. Millican married Elizabeth Holder, who was \"much older,\" a \"full grown woman.\"  On the road hauling goods as a wagon man, Millican returned to find that his wife was having an affair with a young man in the neighborhood.  Later, he said, she lived with a free family of color and was guilty of adultery with the son in the family, Frank Lytle.  Benjamin Millican seeks a divorce.","subjects":[{"subject":"Adultery"},{"subject":"Divorce"},{"subject":"Interracial socializing "},{"subject":"Interracial relationships"},{"subject":"Abandonment "},{"subject":"Illegitimacy "}]}]}