11684104https://dlas.uncg.edu/petitions/petition/11684104VirginiaFrederickCounty911841Legislative2011841Legislativebill drawn001Library of Virginia, Richmond, VirginiaThomas Cain seeks a divorce from his wife Mary who has been guilty of adultery "of the most aggravated character the proof of which is found in the fact that on two separate occasions since her intermarriage ... Mary has been delivered and become the mother of black children who could not be other than the fruits of an adulterous intercourse with a negro."AdulteryDivorceInterracial relationshipsIllegitimacy