Clarissa Jones seeks a divorce and alimony from her husband, William Jones. The petitioner asserts that she and her husband were married some five years ago and that, about two years ago, he "began to treat her badly, and even so inhumanly, as even to beat her, &, on one occasion to so ill-use, & mistreat her, as to drive her from her own home at night, & in her night clothes." Admitting that "they are now separated, by his desertion," the petitioner purports that her husband "has been guilty of adultry -- not only with white women, but with persons of a different color," stating that she "does not wish, in this connexion, to mention names, or dates, but she charges the fact so to be." She prays that the court grant her a divorce, alimony, and the right to continue in possession of "a small farm & some property," which she holds "in her own right."
Result: Granted.
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Repository: Archives of Appalachia, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, Tennessee
