In her original bill, Elizabeth Wilhoyte, a slaveholder, did not ask the court for a divorce, because she hoped of reforming him. Now, she asks for a divorce. She laments that "since the institution of this suit deft has been constantly drunk, has spent his time by day in coffee Houses and drinking establishments and his nights at houses of Publick Prostitution and ill fame." She reveals that on one occasion "deft after spending the night with a Publick Prostitute at a notorious house on La Fayette street gave to his Paramour a counterfeit ten dollar bill as the wages of her Prostitution." In addition to the divorce, she asks for custody of the children.
Result: Granted.
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Repository: Kentucky Division of Libraries and Archives, Frankfort, Kentucky
