Rebecca Wood seeks a divorce. She charges her husband with brutality, adultery, and attempted murder. He beat her on many occasions, engaged in sex with other women, and gave her poison instead of medicine during an illness. Moreover, he took her only child "away from her & said she should not raise it, that she was not fit to bring it up and that the negro woman would raise it, & he wished she was dead and out of the way."
Result: Granted; appealed; reversed and dismissed.
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Repository: North Carolina Department of Archives and History, Raleigh, North Carolina
