In 1829, Sarah Monroe and Adam Hall signed a prenuptial contract stating that the property each of them owned prior to their marriage "would remain with, and belong to each respectively." During their life together, the wife's property, including slaves, would be used "for their joint benefit & mutual support and subsistence," but the profits and appreciation in value of their estates should remain separate. Now, Sarah Hall explains, her husband has abandoned her with no "adequate provision for her comfort or subsistence." Moreover, he threatens to sell and dispose of her property. She asks that her husband surrender a "moiety of the real and personal property acquired by means of the joint profits of their united property since said marriage, together with a moiety of the invested profits arising from the same." She also seeks a divorce.
Result: Dismissed.
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Repository: Madison County Public Library Archives, Huntsville, Alabama