Petition #21484233

• Shelby County, Tennessee. February 7, 1842. - October 12, 1842.
• Court: Circuit
• Salutation: To the Honorable William C. Dunlap Judge of the 11th Judicial circuit of the state of Tennessee Presiding at Raleigh for the county of Shelby &c

Abstract

William Patterson complains that his wife, Catharine McIntire Patterson, left their home two years after their marriage in 1837 and moved in with her mother, who owns "some twelve or fifteen negroes." Patterson repeatedly attempted to get her to move with him from their then-home of Alabama to Tennessee, where he believed "he could thereby better his condition in life." She refused to move with him to Tennessee, or live with him anywhere else. William Patterson, now a resident of Tennessee, asks the court to dissolve his marriage.

Result: Granted.

• Number of petition pages: 4
• Related documents: Order, 22 February 1842; Deposition, Jeremiah Jones, 6 September 1842; Certificate of Character, Jeremiah Jones, 6 September 1842; Decree, 12 October 1842
• Pages of related documents: 6

2 people are documented within petition 21484233

• 1 Defendant
• 1 Petitioner

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Citation information

Repository: Memphis and Shelby County Archives, Memphis, Tennessee

• Records of the Circuit Court

Subjects

• Divorce
• Abandonment