Graham Bishop asks for a divorce from his wife Zilphia Stokes Bishop, who, he charges, was guilty of "a species of prostitution" before their marriage, and intimate with a slave named Brister afterwards. Currently, he says, she is living in open adultery with another man in New Bern, professing "to be his true and lawful wife."
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