Petition #21284004

• Burke County, North Carolina. filing started November 19, 1840.
• Court: Equity
• Salutation: To the honorable the judge of the court of Equity in said county

Abstract

Married in 1799, Anne Wilson files for divorce after a two-year separation from her husband. She charges that William Wilson ordered "a negro woman whom he owned to inflict blows on her person," and kept another black woman as his mistress, "indulging himself in sexual intercourse" in the very bed "which she was in the habit of sleeping." She asks the court to award her certain property, including slaves.

• Number of petition pages: 4
• Related documents: Order, 19 November 1840; Answer, William Wilson, 25 November 1840; Depositions, Isabella Wilson, Martha, Nathaniel, and David Cuthbertson, Elizabeth and Elijah Browning, 22 December 1840
• Pages of related documents: 15

6 people are documented within petition 21284004

• 4 Enslaved
• 1 Defendant
• 1 Petitioner

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Citation information

Repository: North Carolina Department of Archives and History, Raleigh, North Carolina

• County Court Divorce Records

Subjects

• Adultery
• Divorce
• Alimony
• Domestic violence
• Jails/Workhouses
• Slander
• Insubordination
• Interracial relationships
• Property owners (women)