<petition><petition_analysis_number>11482109</petition_analysis_number><petition_url>https://dlas.uncg.edu/petitions/petition/11482109</petition_url><state>Tennessee</state><county></county><file_day>8</file_day><file_month>9</file_month><file_year>1821</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>Confessing that her husband David's "treatment became so intolarable that I Could not Stay with him any longer," Mary Logue seeks a divorce.  She discloses that "he not only abused my person very frequently by pulling my hair and Draging me about the house by it but [threatened] to take my Life and would go to bed with Negro women."   Mary, believing it not safe to stay with him, abandoned "his house and went to my Fathers whare I have Resided Ever Since and Since I have left my husbond ... still Continued in his wickedness as bad as ever."  The petitioner therefore prays that she be granted a divorce.</abstract><subjects><subject>Adultery</subject><subject>Divorce</subject><subject>Domestic violence</subject><subject>Assault</subject><subject>Interracial relationships</subject><subject>Abandonment </subject></subjects></petition>