<petition><petition_analysis_number>21284610</petition_analysis_number><petition_url>https://dlas.uncg.edu/petitions/petition/21284610</petition_url><state>North Carolina</state><county>Ashe</county><location_type>County</location_type><file_day>7</file_day><file_month>10</file_month><file_year>1846</file_year><filing_court>Superior</filing_court><enslaved_count>0</enslaved_count><fpoc_count>0</fpoc_count><total_people_count>2</total_people_count><repository>North Carolina Department of Archives and History, Raleigh, North Carolina</repository><abstract>Alfred White seeks a divorce.  His wife, the former Jane Phipps, "eloped from his bead [sic] and board" with another man and made off to the state of Missouri.  Prior to departing she was "seen with a Coloured man."</abstract><subjects><subject>Adultery</subject><subject>Interracial relationships</subject><subject>Abandonment </subject></subjects></petition>