After thirty-five years of marriage, Charlotte Allen seeks a divorce and alimony. After confronting her husband Nathaniel with charges of having an affair with Mary Reamy, "a base woman living in the neighborhood," she was driven from their home and forced to take refuge with her son-in-law. She never returned. Nathaniel is a man of substantial means, she asserts, owning land worth five thousand dollars, stock and outstanding loans worth three thousand dollars, and nineteen "very likely negro slaves" worth an average of eight hundred dollars each. About half of the slaves are descendants from those given to her by her father many years before.
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Repository: North Carolina Department of Archives and History, Raleigh, North Carolina
