Petition #21382020

Abstract

Sarah Beam asks that her husband, Albert Beam, be compelled to provide a separate maintenance for her and her children's support. Since their marriage in 1807, Sarah claims that Albert has become increasingly violent and abusive towards her until he "made a furious attack on your Oratrix whilst engaged in her domestic employments." She relates that he "beat her severely with a switch, led her violently to the gate, turned her without, shut the gate upon her and ordered her out." She then took refuge with her eldest child at the house of her brother. Albert refuses to "contribute to the comfortable maintenance and support" of Sarah or her child, although he owns valuable property, which includes one male slave worth $625. He also withholds their youngest daughter from her, refusing to allow Sarah to see her. She asks that Albert be compelled to deliver up her child and that she be permitted to live separately from him with her daughters, "secured against any interruption from the said Albert."

Result: Partially granted.

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Repository: South Carolina Department of Archives and History, Columbia, South Carolina

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