In 1829, after four years of marriage and three children, Gabriel Goodwin explains that his wife, Mary Lane Goodwin, "brought forth her fourth child which to your petitioners utter confusion and dismay was a dark [mulatto] and one half negro." A short time later, Goodwin left his wife, and now seeks a divorce.
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Repository: North Carolina Department of Archives and History, Raleigh, North Carolina
