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

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@new_haven_county_superior_court:place {city: @new_haven, county: @new_haven_county, type: "Court"}

@sophy:person {full_name: "Sophy", ethnicity: "Free Negro", residence: @new_haven, gender: "female"}

@james_saunderson:person {full_name: "James Saunderson", ethnicity: "Free Negro", residence: @new_haven, gender: "male"}

@caroline:person {full_name: "Caroline", ethnicity: "Negro", gender: "female"}

@bilard_hubbard:person {full_name: "Bilard Hubbard", role: "Underwriter"}

@samuel_wales:person {full_name: "Samuel Wales", role: "Signer"}

@sophy_vs_james_saunderson:document {type: "Divorce case", parties: [@sophy, @james_saunderson], jurisdiction: @new_haven_county_superior_court, date: @date_1785_08_23, description: "Divorce case involving Sophy, a free Negro woman, and James Saunderson, a free Negro man, who was previously married to Caroline."}

@file_pinax:file {title: "New Haven County Superior Court Divorce Case of Sophy vs. James Saunderson", type: "Collection", creator: [@sophy, @james_saunderson, @caroline, @samuel_wales, @bilard_hubbard], institution: @connecticut_state_library, created: @date_1784, end: @date_1785, language: "en", subjects: ["Divorce", "African American history", "New Haven County", "Marriage", "Legal documents", "Black history", "18th century"], description: "Collection of documents related to a divorce case in New Haven County Superior Court involving Sophy, a free Negro woman, and James Saunderson, a free Negro man, who was previously married to Caroline. The documents include marriage certificates and a petition for divorce.", source: "PINAX"}

@file_rg003_nhsc_baai_ps_divorce_saunderson_001_jpg:file {ocr_text: "The underwriter Married in New Haven October 18th 1784 a Negro man by the name of James Sanderson to a Negro woman who called herself Sophia Jackson.\n\nNew Haven August 26th 1785.\nBilard Hubbard"}

@file_rg003_nhsc_baai_ps_divorce_saunderson_002_jpg:file {ocr_text: "This certifies that a Negro Man called Quavon, alias James Saundersford & a Negro Woman called Caroline were married by the Subscriber in Dec 1763.\n\nNew Haven Aug 26, 1765\n\nSamuel Wales"}

@file_rg003_nhsc_baai_ps_divorce_saunderson_003_jpg:file {ocr_text: "To the Honorable Court of Judicature of the State of Connecticut now sitting in New Haven Augt Term 1785:\nThe Petition & Memorial of Sophy, a free Negro woman now residing in the City of New Haven, humbly sheweth.\nThat she the said Sophy being then a single unmarried person, was in the fall of the year 1784 married unto James a free negro then still living in this City; who two days after before the consummation of his marriage was taken up to put in goal at the instance of his wife Caroline then living, to whom he had before been married & from whom he neither then was nor still is divorced. That the said Sophy was deceived by P. James, who declared before the Revd Mr Hubbard ...\n... Dated New Haven Augt 23. 1785.\n\nSophy her Mark"}

@file_rg003_nhsc_baai_ps_divorce_saunderson_004_jpg:file {ocr_text: "Sophy Negro\nPetition Grant\nEn P.\nSophy - Free Negro Woman\nDivorce\n1785"}

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@file_rg003_nhsc_baai_ps_divorce_saunderson_002_tif:file {note: "No OCR text available"}

@file_rg003_nhsc_baai_ps_divorce_saunderson_003_tif:file {note: "No OCR text available"}

@file_rg003_nhsc_baai_ps_divorce_saunderson_004_tif:file {note: "No OCR text available"}

@file_pinax -> documents -> @sophy_vs_james_saunderson

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@file_rg003_nhsc_baai_ps_divorce_saunderson_002_jpg -> depicts -> @sophy_vs_james_saunderson

@file_rg003_nhsc_baai_ps_divorce_saunderson_003_jpg -> depicts -> @sophy_vs_james_saunderson

@file_rg003_nhsc_baai_ps_divorce_saunderson_004_jpg -> depicts -> @sophy_vs_james_saunderson

@james_saunderson -> married to -> @caroline {date: @date_1763_12, location: @new_haven}

@james_saunderson -> married to -> @sophy {date: @date_1784_10_18, location: @new_haven}

@sophy -> petitioned -> @new_haven_county_superior_court {date: @date_1785_08_23, subject: "Divorce"}

@file_rg003_nhsc_baai_ps_divorce_saunderson_001_jpg -> contains -> @marriage_certificate_james_sophy:document {parties: [@james_saunderson, @sophy], date: @date_1784_10_18, location: @new_haven}

@file_rg003_nhsc_baai_ps_divorce_saunderson_002_jpg -> contains -> @marriage_certificate_james_caroline:document {parties: [@james_saunderson, @caroline], date: @date_1763_12, location: @new_haven}

@file_rg003_nhsc_baai_ps_divorce_saunderson_003_jpg -> contains -> @petition_sophy:document {petitioner: @sophy, date: @date_1785_08_23, court: @new_haven_county_superior_court}

@file_rg003_nhsc_baai_ps_divorce_saunderson_004_jpg -> contains -> @petition_grant_sophy:document {petitioner: @sophy, date: @date_1785, type: "Divorce grant"}

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

@sophy_vs_james_saunderson -> indexed by -> @nhsc_baai_cases_papers_subject