Henry Gardner requests a divorce from his wife Mary, who "left your petitioners House & Home & returned to her Fathers without any Just cause"; Mary returned the following month and "took away her negroes" along with "all the property which she brought with her to your petitioners House, after the intermarriage." Gardner reports that he and his wife now "Agree to live a Seperate & an undisturbed life which would conduce much more to the happiness of both parties living as they do in the same neighbourhood." He therefore prays "that the bonds of Matrimony which now exist between your petitioner & the sd Mary L. be dissolved."
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