After four years of marriage, Nancy Graves seeks a divorce and alimony, charging her husband with drunkenness, assault, and ill treatment. Furthermore, she says, he frequently accused her of "having connection with negroes, and other indignities." In his related answer, Benjamin Graves denies all charges of cruelty, admits to getting drunk occasionally, and accuses his wife of having illicit intercourse with John Spencer's negroe man 'Hard'".
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