Petition #21385567

Abstract

Mary M. Witt Boland, by her next friend and son, Jacob F. Witt, seeks to live "separate and apart from the Said John M Boland," her husband. The petitioner represents that she has tried "to put up with his ill-treatment, abusive and annoying to her feelings as it was" but that "his conduct for the last year and longer has become so disagreeable to her" that she can no longer "reconcile herself to it." Mary confides that John "spends the larger portion of his time with another woman," by whom "he has had a child." She further charges that he "has actually refused to furnish her with the necessaries of life." The petitioner reveals that she purchased 440 acres of land from the estate of her late husband, Michael Witt, and that "she also owned a negro woman Martha bought at the sale of the personal estate of her said first husband" at the time of her marriage to Boland. Mary contends that the said John has "sold the timber" on some of said land, which she argues "is destructive of the value." She also asserts that defendant "has threatened to sell the negroes." The petitioner therefore prays that "she may be protected ... in living separate and apart" from her husband; that "he support and maintain her and her infant;" and that he "may be restrained and enjoined from wasting the timber on the said tracts of land ... and from either selling or removing the slaves mentioned in this Bill from and beyond the jurisdiction of this Honorable Court."

Result: Dismissed.

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Repository: South Carolina Department of Archives and History, Columbia, South Carolina

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