In 1823, after eighteen years of marriage, William Hickman began to suspect that the children born during their union were not his. Even after he became convinced that this was the case, he did not file for divorce, hoping to avoid humiliating members of his wife's family "who were numerous & respectable." Finally, in 1827, however, Hickman discovered that "a mulatto slave, living in the neighborhood" had fathered his children. Hickman seeks a divorce.
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Repository: North Carolina Department of Archives and History, Raleigh, North Carolina
