@collection:collection {title: "Charles Cann Divorce Petition Collection", creator: @charles_cann, institution: @connecticut_state_library, created: @date_1835, subjects: ["Divorce","Adultery","Legal Documents","Marriage","New Haven County Superior Court"]}

@charles_cann:person {full_name: "Charles Cann"}

@harriett_cann:person {full_name: "Harriett Cann"}

@connecticut_state_library:organization {location: @connecticut}

@connecticut:place {country: @united_states}

@new_haven_county:place {state: @connecticut, country: @united_states}

@nottingham:place {county: @new_haven_county, state: @connecticut, country: @united_states}

@new_haven_superior_court:organization {type: "Superior Court", jurisdiction: @new_haven_county}

@petition:document {title: "Divorce Petition of Charles Cann", date_filed: @date_1835, petitioner: @charles_cann, respondent: @harriett_cann, marriage_date: @date_1828_01_01, alleged_adultery_date: @date_1834_10_01, filing_court: @new_haven_superior_court, location: @nottingham}

@collection -> contains -> @petition

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@file_rg003_nhsc_baai_ps_divorce_cam_002_jpg:file {type: "Image/Asset with OCR", ocr_text: "To H. Hon: Superior Court, to be located at McLean within and for the county of Nottingham in the 4th Precinct of Pennsylvania A.D. 1835, sitting as a court of Chancery. The petition of Charles Cann of Nottingham in said county, humbly sheweth, that on a chart the first day of January 1828 he was lawfully married to Harriett Cann of said Nottingham, with whom he continued to live, performing all the duties attending on him, by the marriage contract, until on a chart the first day of October 1834. And the petitioner says, that he said Harriett, now he said remains with the petitioner, to wit on a chart the first day of October 1834. at said Nottingham, considering her remaining continually, commits with moral looseness, the crime of adultery. Whereupon the petitioner says, that he humbly came to inquire into the truth of the foregoing allegations, and in finding the same to be true, to keep a house of divorce, and close and discharge him, from his said marriage contract made with the said Harriett as spouse, and from all obligation arising from the same. And upon petition as is duty bound will come before date at Nottingham Bay Charles Cann, by his Ally Chas St. Ferguson"}

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@nhsc_baai_cases_papers_subject:concept {description: "Subject index field for New Haven County Superior Court files involving Black, African American, and Indigenous individuals"}