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@file_pinax:document {title: "Newport Freeman Divorce Petition Documents", creator: @newport_freeman, institution: @connecticut_state_library, created: @date_1798_09_24, language: "en", subjects: ["Divorce", "Legal documents", "Marriage", "Desertion", "New Haven County Superior Court"], description: "Collection of documents related to the divorce petition of Newport Freeman from Violet Freeman, including the petition and court summons.", place: [@new_haven, @portsmouth_nh, @boston_ma]}
@newport_freeman:person {full_name: "Newport Freeman", role: "Petitioner"}
@violet_freeman:person {full_name: "Violet Freeman", role: "Respondent"}
@oliver_tompkins:person {full_name: "Oliver Tompkins", role: "Justice"}
@connecticut_state_library:organization {type: "State Library", location: @connecticut}
@new_haven:place {state: @connecticut, country: @united_states}
@portsmouth_nh:place {state: @new_hampshire, country: @united_states}
@boston_ma:place {state: @massachusetts, country: @united_states}
@new_haven_county_superior_court:organization {type: "Court", location: @new_haven}
@marriage_event:event {description: "Marriage of Newport Freeman and Violet Freeman"}
@newport_freeman -> married -> @violet_freeman {when: @date_1778_11_20, where: @portsmouth_nh}
@desertion_event:event {description: "Violet Freeman deserted Newport Freeman after approximately six years of marriage"}
@violet_freeman -> deserted -> @newport_freeman {duration_years: 6}
@petition_document:document {type: "Divorce Petition", petitioner: @newport_freeman, respondent: @violet_freeman, date: @date_1798_09_24, filed_at: @new_haven_county_superior_court}
@summons_document:document {type: "Summons", issuer: @newport_freeman, recipient: @violet_freeman, date: @date_1798_09_24, directed_to: @boston_ma, court: @new_haven_county_superior_court}
@newport_freeman -> filed -> @petition_document {when: @date_1798_09_24}
@newport_freeman -> issued -> @summons_document {when: @date_1798_09_24}
@oliver_tompkins -> signed -> @summons_document {role: "Justice"}
@file_rg003_nhsc_baai_ps_divorce_freemannewportviolet_004_jpg:file {format: "jpg", related_to: @petition_document}
@file_rg003_nhsc_baai_ps_divorce_freemannewportviolet_005_jpg:file {format: "jpg", related_to: @summons_document}
@file_rg003_nhsc_baai_ps_divorce_freemannewportviolet_004_tif:file {format: "tif", related_to: @petition_document}
@file_rg003_nhsc_baai_ps_divorce_freemannewportviolet_005_tif:file {format: "tif", related_to: @summons_document}
@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"}To the Honourable Inferior Court to be held at New Haven in & for the County of New Haven on the first Tuesday of Janu any next, the Petition of Newport Freeman of St New Haven humbly sheweth, That on the 20th day of November D1778 he was lawfully married to Violet a free woman then of Portsmouth in the County of Rockingham & the State of New Hampshire, & that soon after said marriage your Petitioner with Violet his wife removed into this State, in which he continued to live with sd Violet in the due performance of all the duties required in the marriage covenant till neither about six years last past, when the said Violet without any just cause & contrary to the mind & intent of your Petitioner willfully deserted him, and hath ever since continued to absent herself from your Petitioner, without any just cause as aforesaid; your Petitioner therefore pray your Honours to take his case into your consideration & if upon examination the facts alleged are found to be true that you would grant to your Petitioner a bill of Divorce and thereby release & discharge him from
To Violet & from all the duties & obligations he is under to her by force of the marriage covenant, & he as in duty bound will ever pray. New Haven September 24th D1798 Newport Freeman To an indifferent person to serve & return writing By authority of the State of Connecticut you are hereby commanded to summon Violet Freeman formerly of New Haven in New Haven County now residing in Boston in the county of Suffolk & commonwealth of Massachusetts to appear before the Superior Court to be held at New Haven in & for the County of New Haven on the first Tuesday of January next, then to show cause if any she have why the prayer of the foregoing Petition should not be granted & you are to leave a true & attested copy of the foregoing Petition and this citation at least twelve days before said first Tuesday of January. Whereof fail not but due return make with your doing therein. Dated at New Haven the 24th day of September D1798. Rt one Dollar State duty certified & signed by Oliver Tompkins Justice New
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