Petition #11482909

Abstract

Caroline Hill represents that she received a proposal of marriage in July 1829 from Bennet Hill, who claimed "that he had Ten Negroes coming from his Uncle a old bachelor in No Carolina, that he had a thousand dollars a Legacy from his Aunt which he would be in possession of this Fall that he had at that time $500 to get some place to live on for the present." She confesses, however, that "a day or two after their union she was informed by his near conections that Sd. Hill was a Swindler in all of the above Statements." The petitioner therefore prays "your Honourable Body [to] lend to her prayer a gracious Ear, and divorce your petitioner from her marriage contract with Sd. Bennet Hill and Change her name from that of Caroline Hill, to that of Caroline Fraser her original name."

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Repository: Tennessee State Library and Archives, Nashville, Tennessee

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