Elisha Lee seeks a divorce from his wife Elizabeth who falsely accused him of committing adultery with a black woman. He explains that Elizabeth "ran away and deserted him" in 1828, and despite his efforts, he failed to bring her back. "I ascribed her dislike to me to her great love of the bottle," he wrote, and the baleful influence of her mother. Later, he discovered that she gave birth to a mulatto baby. "I saw the child," he said, "and have no hesitation in saying that I believe it is a coloured child."
Or you may view all people.
Repository: North Carolina Department of Archives and History, Raleigh, North Carolina
