Martha Stone seeks a divorce from Lewis Stone, whom she married in 1809 in the state of Virginia. The last four years, Lewis has been "wandering about through the county and has made no provision or maintenance" for his family. Lewis has in fact taken Sally, a slave given to Martha by her father, along with Sally's seven children, and "fraudulently put them in possession of a woman by the name of Charity Hunter." Martha asserts that Lewis "has maliciously deserted her" and currently has "taken up with and now resides in the State of Ky. with Betsey Firkran, and with whom he has committed repeated acts of adultery." Martha reports that Lewis has "an estate of about a thousand dollars in Virginia coming to him" and that she will be entitled to a portion of her mother's estate at her mother's death. In addition to the divorce, she asks "that the said negroes be decreed to the Compt, and her property and estate in Ky. be settled on her, and what property she has in her possession be decreed to her."
Result: Granted.
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Repository: Tennessee State Library and Archives, Nashville, Tennessee
