Married in 1821, Margaret Kornegay seeks a divorce and alimony from her husband charging adultery, physical abuse, drunkenness, and abandonment. Margaret informs the court that, among other cruelties, her husband took their infant child up a ladder to the top of the roof and taunted his wife "to see him roll it down." Simon Parker, who lived in the same house, testified that "on one occasion, he went with him [Kornegay] at night to a Dram Shop & returned in a drinking, abusive way, and whipd one of the negroes so severely as to produce confusion in the family, that a part of sd beating was upstairs in the dwelling house, & so alarmed [Mrs. Kornegay] that this deponent at her request staid all night."
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Repository: North Carolina Department of Archives and History, Raleigh, North Carolina
