<petition><petition_analysis_number>11482002</petition_analysis_number><petition_url>https://dlas.uncg.edu/petitions/petition/11482002</petition_url><state>Tennessee</state><county>Stewart</county><location_type>County</location_type><file_day>11</file_day><file_month>7</file_month><file_year>1820</file_year><filing_court>Petition</filing_court><enslaved_count>0</enslaved_count><fpoc_count>0</fpoc_count><total_people_count>1</total_people_count><repository>Tennessee State Library and Archives, Nashville, Tennessee</repository><abstract>Harriet H. Gibson seeks a divorce from her husband, Henry Gibson, on the grounds that he neglected his business, "cohabited with Other Women," and forced her from the house; shortly thereafter, Henry "removed to the State of Kentucky with all his (Negroes Ten in number) his Horses &amp;C in which he has Resided about twelve months &amp; Still continues there."  The petitioner reports that her husband "has been frequently herd to say that he would never live with me again as a wife."</abstract><subjects><subject>Adultery</subject><subject>Divorce</subject><subject>Domestic violence</subject><subject>Abandonment </subject></subjects></petition>