Helen Brooke Hamilton, suffering "repeated and cruel wrongs from her husband, Robert S Hamilton," seeks a divorce. Unhappy before the birth of their child, the petitioner "fondly hoped that their infant daughter would awaken him to a sense of his domestic obligation." She confides, however, that "she was doomed to the wretchedness of discovering he was an adulterer, and that with her servant maid, the girl who attended upon her." Hamilton therefore prays that it may "please you to grant her a divorce and to secure to her the custody and tuition of her infant daughter."
Result: Referred to committee for courts of justice.
Or you may view all people.
Repository: Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia
