@tabitha_adkins:person {full_name: "Tabitha Adkins", residence: @wallingford, role: "Petitioner"}

@joseph_adkins:person {full_name: "Joseph Adkins", residence: @wallingford, role: "Respondent"}

@connecticut_state_library:organization {type: "State Library"}

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

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

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

@new_haven_county_superior_court:organization {type: "Court", jurisdiction: @new_haven_county}

@petition:document {type: "Divorce Petition", date: @date_1771_10_25, petitioner: @tabitha_adkins, respondent: @joseph_adkins, location: @new_haven, description: "Petition seeking divorce from Joseph Adkins, filed in New Haven County Superior Court on October 25, 1771."}

@divorce_petition_collection:collection {title: "New Haven County Superior Court Divorce Petition Collection", creator: @tabitha_adkins, institution: @connecticut_state_library, created: @date_1771_10_25, language: "en", subjects: ["Divorce","Legal Documents","Marriage","18th Century","New Haven County","Wallingford"], description: "Collection containing a divorce petition from Tabitha Adkins of Wallingford, New Haven County, dated October 25, 1771, seeking a divorce from Joseph Adkins.", place: [@new_haven, @wallingford, @new_haven_county]}

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

@file_pinax -> documents -> @divorce_petition_collection

@divorce_petition_collection -> contains -> @petition

@petition -> filed in -> @new_haven_county_superior_court

@petition -> created by -> @tabitha_adkins

@petition -> about -> @joseph_adkins

@divorce_petition_collection -> indexed by -> @nhsc_baai_cases_papers_subject

@file_rg003_nhsc_baai_ps_divorce_adkins_004_jpg -> depicts -> @petition

@file_rg003_nhsc_baai_ps_divorce_adkins_004_jpg -> OCR_text -> "Town of New Haven on the Last Tuesday of October AD 1771\n\nThe Petition of Tabitha Adkins of Wallingford in the County of New Haven humbly sheweth—\nThat she was lawfully married unto Joseph Adkins of Wallingford on the 25th Day of October AD 1752 & for some time lived with him in the conjugal State in Peace & Happiness, until some time in the Beginning of the year 1760 when Mr. Adkins departed out of this town & wholly forsook your Obt., & has gone ever since never been with or seen by your Obt. since that time hath he afforded your Obt. any support or help during his time, but hath wholly declined & omitted every Duty of Husband—Whereupon your Obt. praying, your Honours to grant her a Bill of Divorce agreeable to the Statute in such case provided. & she as on Duty bound shall ever pray.\n\nTabitha Adkins\nMartha"