Married in 1854, Elisha Charles Dodson claims that his wife, the former Permelia Ann Brown, committed adultery. During different periods, he says, she lived with her mother, Betsey Brown, who managed a house of ill repute, and also with a free black man "who kept a house of the same bad character." Elisha seeks a divorce.
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Repository: North Carolina Department of Archives and History, Raleigh, North Carolina
