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1804 Divorce Petition: Delilah
Long, wife of James Long
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The Petition of Delilah Long
The House of Commons 30th November 1804
Read and ref'd to the Committee of Divorce and Alimony
By order <s> J Haas
In Senate Novem'b 30th 1804
Read and referred as by the House of
Commons
By Order <s> M Stokes clk
Bozman
[on side margin]
Grants what property she may hereafter
acquire
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To the Honorable the General Assembly of
the State of North Carolina.
The petition of James [strikethrough] Delilah
Long humbly showeth that your peitioner intermarried a few years
ago, with a certain James Long whose conduct was so highly imporoper
that their property was soon exhausted at which time your petitioner
was wholly abandoned by the said James; and since his departure
your petitioner has accumulated by her industry some property
which with care may be sufficient to support your petitioner;
and as the said property is subject (if he should ever return)
to his extravagance and waste she therefore prays that your honorable
body will pass an act to secure to your petitioner such property
as she now has or may hereafter acquire by industry purchase
or otherwise; and she as in duty bound will ever pray
<s> Delilah Long |
