11482912https://dlas.uncg.edu/petitions/petition/11482912TennesseeMauryCounty1829Archives001Tennessee State Library and Archives, Nashville, TennesseeJohn Rich of Maury County seeks a divorce from Susanah Moore Rich on the grounds that she "was delivered of a mulatto child" four months after their marriage. Revealing that he cannot pay "the charge of a lawyer and the fees of court ... without injury to himself," Rich therefore "prays your Honorable boddy to pass a law divorcing him from the said Susanah."AdulteryDivorceInterracial relationships