<petition><petition_analysis_number>21283309</petition_analysis_number><petition_url>https://dlas.uncg.edu/petitions/petition/21283309</petition_url><state>North Carolina</state><county>Caswell</county><location_type>County</location_type><file_day>18</file_day><file_month>2</file_month><file_year>1833</file_year><filing_court>Superior</filing_court><enslaved_count>0</enslaved_count><fpoc_count>1</fpoc_count><total_people_count>3</total_people_count><repository>North Carolina Department of Archives and History, Raleigh, North Carolina</repository><abstract>Andrew Whittington seeks a divorce from his wife Lucy Loftis Whittington for engaging in "criminal intercourse with both whites and mulattos" and for having "three illegitimate children, one of which is a coloured child."</abstract><subjects><subject>Adultery</subject><subject>Divorce</subject><subject>Interracial relationships</subject><subject>Abandonment </subject><subject>Illegitimacy </subject></subjects></petition>