Petition #11683835

Abstract

Richard Hall represents that his wife Sarah, "to your petitioners shame and mortification, was delivered of a colored child" after six month's marriage. Hall states that he "quitted the bed of she who had so [desecrated] him and has been from that time to this, a stranger to her." Citing that "since that time ... the said Sarah has had two other children both coloured," the petitioner prays "the legislature to disolve the union which connects him with one who has thus proven herself so unworthy."

Result: Refereed to committee for courts of justice.

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Repository: Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia

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