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Newport Freeman vs Violet Freeman Divorce Grant Documents

Version: 4 (current) | Updated: 12/4/2025, 3:16:20 PM

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Description

Newport Freeman vs Violet Freeman Divorce Grant Documents Collection

Overview

This is a small, focused collection of the original divorce grant documents issued by the New Haven County Superior Court on 7 January 1799 for the case of Newport Freeman vs Violet Freeman. The collection is held by the Connecticut State Library and is part of the NHSC BAAI (Black, African American, and Indigenous History) Cases/Papers subject index. It contains the petition for divorce and the court’s grant, presented as scanned images in both JPEG and TIFF formats, accompanied by OCR‑derived text.

Background

The New Haven County Superior Court recorded the divorce grant on the date above, a routine legal proceeding in the late‑18th‑century Connecticut judiciary. The case is included in the Connecticut State Library’s digitization effort to make accessible court records that involve Black, African American, and Indigenous individuals. The NHSC BAAI project seeks to provide researchers with searchable, indexed materials that illuminate the legal experiences of these communities in New Haven County’s history.

Contents

  • Petition for Divorce – the original handwritten document, scanned in high resolution.
  • JPEG image (RG003NHSCBAAIPSDivorceFreemanNewportViolet003.jpg) – a color scan of the petition.
  • TIFF image (RG003NHSCBAAIPSDivorceFreemanNewportViolet003.tif) – a lossless, archival‑grade scan.
  • OCR text – machine‑readable transcription of the petition’s content.
  • Metadata – includes title, creator, institution, date, language, subjects (Divorce, Legal Documents, Black, African American, and Indigenous History), and place (New Haven County, Connecticut).

Scope

The collection documents a single divorce case, covering the parties Newport Freeman and Violet Freeman and the court’s decision on 7 January 1799. It does not include any subsequent appeals, related correspondence, or other court filings. The material is geographically limited to New Haven County and temporally confined to the late 18th century, providing a snapshot of early legal proceedings involving Black or Indigenous individuals in Connecticut.

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Metadata

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OCR Text

Newport Freeman vs Violet Freeman recorded. Petition 1799 Janv. 7 day pet. granted Newport Freeman vs Violet Freeman Petition for divorce 1799 Janv. granted, recorded.

Version History (4 versions)

  • ✓ v4 (current) · 12/4/2025, 3:16:20 PM
    "Added description"
  • v3 · 12/4/2025, 2:37:06 PM · View this version
    "Added knowledge graph extraction"
  • v2 · 12/4/2025, 6:38:16 AM · View this version
    "Added PINAX metadata"
  • v1 · 12/4/2025, 6:28:04 AM · View this version
    "Reorganization group: Divorce_Grant_Documents"

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