<petition><petition_analysis_number>11483328</petition_analysis_number><petition_url>https://dlas.uncg.edu/petitions/petition/11483328</petition_url><state>Tennessee</state><county>Franklin</county><location_type>County</location_type><file_day>21</file_day><file_month>10</file_month><file_year>1833</file_year><filing_court>Petition</filing_court><enslaved_count>3</enslaved_count><fpoc_count>0</fpoc_count><total_people_count>6</total_people_count><repository>Tennessee State Library and Archives, Nashville, Tennessee</repository><abstract>Susan Doolin seeks a divorce from her husband, Thomas Doolin.  Susan confides that her said husband "has been guilty of Acts &amp; deeds [inconsistent] with the marriage Vow" and that he "has been guilty of Adultry With indecent &amp; lewd women."  She further submits that "his own relations to me [stated] that he had in a carnal way kept &amp; made use of a Negro girl that belongd to me,--the Negro says the same."  Stating that "he left some time in the month of April last &amp; told me that he never intended to live with me again," the petitioner prays "that your honourable body would pass a law divorcing her from her said husband."</abstract><subjects><subject>Adultery</subject><subject>Divorce</subject><subject>Westward migration</subject><subject>Interracial relationships</subject><subject>Abandonment </subject></subjects></petition>