Petition #21285023

• Craven County, North Carolina. filing started circa 1850.
• Court: Superior
• Salutation: To His Honour the Judge of the Superior Court of Law for the County of Craven

Abstract

Slaveholder Harriet Foy asks for a divorce because of her husband's adultery "with various and sundry women." He has been guilty, she explains, "of living in general, habitual and indiscriminate adulterous intercourse with slaves and other abandoned women," particularly a slave woman named Hannah owned by a woman in Jones County.

• Number of petition pages: 6
• Related documents: Subpoena, 3 October 1850; Answer, Thomas D. Foy, 3 April 1851; Indenture, Thomas Foy to Harriet and Elizabeth Smith, 6 January 1844
• Pages of related documents: 10

16 people are documented within petition 21285023

• 11 Enslaved
• 1 Defendant
• 1 Petitioner
• 3 Others

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Citation information

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

• County Court Divorce Records

Subjects

• Adultery
• Divorce
• Forgery
• Diseases (physical)
• Interracial relationships
• Abandonment
• Sex workers/Promiscuity
• Prenuptial agreement
• Property owners (women)