Petition #21085315

• Adams County, Mississippi. filing started December 31, 1853.
• Court: Chancery
• Salutation: To the Honorable B. C. Buckley, Vice Chancellor of the State of Mississippi, for the Southern District

Abstract

Alzonuth M. Whitehead was granted a divorce on the grounds of her husband's adulterous affair with a slave. She asks that the court increase the amount of alimony to support herself and her children. Related documents contain information on the slaves and relationship of the defendant and Emily.

• Number of petition pages: 3
• Related documents: PARs #21085313; #21085314; Order to Sheriff, 28 March 1853; Sheriff's Report, 5 April 1853; Interrogatories, Timothy Thomas, David Thomas, Turner Ewell, Henry C. Whitehead, 22 December 1853; Interrogatories, Ann Eliza Davis, Mary Holmes, and Thomas G. James, 23 December 1853; Commissioner's Report, 31 December 1853
• Pages of related documents: 17

17 people are documented within petition 21085315

• 12 Enslaved
• 1 Defendant
• 2 Petitioners
• 2 Others

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Citation information

Repository: Adams County Courthouse, Natchez, Mississippi

• Records of the Vice Chancery Court

Subjects

• Adultery
• Divorce
• Alimony
• Domestic violence
• Skills (enslaved)
• Crops (Cotton)
• Diseases (physical)
• Drunkenness
• Assault
• Interracial relationships
• Swapping (enslaved)
• Abandonment