{"petition":[{"petition_analysis_number":"20881302","petition_url":"https:\/\/dlas.uncg.edu\/petitions\/petition\/20881302","state":"Louisiana","county":"Orleans","location_type":"Parish","file_day":8,"file_month":3,"file_year":1813,"filing_court":"District","end_day":16,"end_month":10,"end_year":1813,"ending_court":"District","result":"granted","enslaved_count":2,"fpoc_count":0,"total_people_count":4,"repository":"New Orleans Public Library, New Orleans, Louisiana","abstract":"Gertrude Reine Trepagnier seeks a separation of property from her husband.  Gertrude represents that she intermarried with Laurent Trepagnier in 1803, bringing a dowry of two slaves, Françoise and her daughter, Manon, and $3,000 in cash.  Since their marriage, Laurent has been \"Growing poor & Contracting debts Either through misconduct or Bad management.\"  Gertrude believes that her dowry property is now under threat from her husband's creditors.  Therefore, she prays for a separation of property and asks that her husband be condemned to restore all of her dotal property to her.","subjects":[{"subject":"Property owners (women)"},{"subject":"Dowry"}]}]}