Harriet Night explains that when she married her husband, William Night, she brought to the marriage a young slave named Mark and other property. The two "lived together tho' not happily, (owing to the discontented and morose temper" of her husband, until eighteen months ago, when he "sold off the whole of his stock, furniture and other property," except the slave named Mark. Mr. Night also "took their son, and disposed of him, much to the grief of your Oratrix, and abandoned and left her with her little daughter." Harriet Night asks that the court grant an order restraining her husband from selling or disposing of the "Negroe Boy, bed & furniture," all that remains of the personal property after his departure, and that the court decree her "a separate maintenance" out of his estate. In an amended bill, Harriet Night claims that her husband's treatment of her was "so cruel, barbarous and inhuman as to actually endanger her life," and she asks for a divorce.
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Repository: Harrison County Courthouse, Cynthiana, Kentucky
