{"petition":[{"petition_analysis_number":"20184105","petition_url":"https:\/\/dlas.uncg.edu\/petitions\/petition\/20184105","state":"Alabama","county":"Pickens","location_type":"County","file_day":25,"file_month":10,"file_year":1841,"filing_court":"Chancery","end_year":1844,"ending_court":"Chancery","result":"dismissed","enslaved_count":0,"fpoc_count":0,"total_people_count":2,"repository":"Pickens County Courthouse, Carrollton, Alabama","abstract":"After marrying Sarah Duncan in 1836, Jacob Smith instructed his children and servants to respect his new wife \"as children & Servants ought to do, towards a mother & mistress.\"  But, Smith charges, Sarah \"never appeared happy, or content in their company nor spoke to, or communed pleasantly with them; her conversation with them was at all times in strains of anger & unpleasantness.\"   Less than seven months after the marriage, Susan left.  Now, Smith asks for divorce.","subjects":[{"subject":"Domestic violence"},{"subject":"Insubordination"},{"subject":"Abandonment "}]}]}