Nancy Speer seeks a divorce and alimony, charging her husband with adultery and violence. She was forced to flee from their farm, and is now without support, although her husband is worth at least nine thousand dollars and owns four slaves. She fears he is planning to sell his property and move to Texas "to defeat your Petitioner of her lawful support & maintenance."
Result: Granted.
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Repository: North Carolina Department of Archives and History, Raleigh, North Carolina
