Petition #11685006

• Goochland County, Virginia. filing started January 15, 1850.
• Court: Legislative
• Salutation: To the General Assembly of Virginia

Abstract

For thirteen years Mary Terry and her husband lived together in Goochland County. About 1848, however, the husband, William Terry, "took up with a free negro woman living in the neighbourhood, and, with her, left the County and State." He never returned and she asks for a divorce.

Result: Referred to committee for courts of justice.

• Number of petition pages: 2
• Related documents: Copy of Court Decree, Mary I. Terry v. William B. Terry and Jane Poor, 22 June 1849
• Pages of related documents: 1

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Citation information

Repository: Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia

• Legislative Petitions

Subjects

• Divorce
• Interracial relationships
• Abandonment