Petition #21686604

• Albemarle County, Virginia. cicra 1866. - October 16, 1866.
• Court: Circuit
• Salutation: To the Judge of the Circuit Court of Albermarle

Abstract

Jack Robinson, a freedman, states that in 1863 or 1864, while he was a slave of George M. Lofland, he "took up with" a slave named Amanda Johnson, who at the time belonged to Emily Wood. Robinson and Johnson "had a sort of wedding after the fashion of negroes, & went through the forms of marriage." Around March 1866, Robinson heard that Emily had committed adultery with a freedman named Beverly Monroe. Robinson asks for a declaration "that he and Amanda have never been and are not now married."

Result: Granted.

• Number of petition pages: 4
• Related documents: Amended Bill, Jack Robinson, 13 October 1866; Answer, Amanda Johnson [alias Robinson]; 6 October 1866; Deposition, Beverly Monroe, 6 October 1866; Answer, Amanda Johnson [alias Robinson], 13 October 1866; Decree, 16 October 1866
• Pages of related documents: 6

7 people are documented within petition 21686604

• 1 Enslaved
• 3 Free persons of color
• 1 Defendant
• 1 Petitioner
• 3 Others

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Citation information

Repository: Virginia State Library

• Records of the County Court, Chancery Causes

Subjects

• Adultery
• Divorce
• Testimony (FPOC)
• Skills (enslaved)
• Abandonment