{"petition":[{"petition_analysis_number":"21282904","petition_url":"https:\/\/dlas.uncg.edu\/petitions\/petition\/21282904","state":"North Carolina","county":"Chatham","location_type":"County","file_day":12,"file_month":2,"file_year":1829,"filing_court":"Superior","enslaved_count":0,"fpoc_count":0,"total_people_count":2,"repository":"North Carolina Department of Archives and History, Raleigh, North Carolina","abstract":"A person of \"Strict morality and Virtue,\" Rachel Hamlet, daughter of the late George Hamlet, asks for a divorce from William Hamlet, who, she asserts, lives a life of \"riot and dissipation\" engaging in \"the most shameful and notorious habits of fornication and adultery\" with \"women of all classes and colour.\"","subjects":[{"subject":"Adultery"},{"subject":"Divorce"},{"subject":"Forgery"},{"subject":"Drunkenness"},{"subject":"Interracial relationships"},{"subject":"Abandonment "}]}]}