Elizabeth Shomaker seeks a separation from her estranged husband, Zedekiah Shomaker, and "suitable maintainance for Life out of his estate." She represents that for a time she "lived happily with him performing in tenderness and affection the duties of a wife," but that Zedekiah soon began to treat her with cruelty. He had an "intolerable ill temper" and "connected himself illicitly with one of his own female slaves." She was thus compelled to leave his "Bed and Board" and now seeks alimony, arguing that he is in "good circumstances, worth two or more good tracts of Land Eight or more slaves and valuable Stock of all Kinds."
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Repository: Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia
