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@collection_daniel_clark_divorce -> indexed by -> @nhsc_baai_cases_papers_subjectTo the Honble Sup Court to be held by Adj Gov on the first Tuesday of Decbr next at New Haven in New Haven County. The Petition of Daniel Clark of Wallingford in S. County humbly sheweth That about 12 years ago your Honor's Petter was carefully joined in Marriage with one Abigail Norton of Hadson in Hartford County with whom he lived in the due Discharge of the Duties of the Marriage Covenant yet so Abigail hath behaved unwisely & in a most perfidious manner defile the Marriage Bed, having been delivered of a Mulatto female Child about the 16th day of November Instant begotten on her Body by one Lebulon Potter a Mulatto as it is now residing in said Town. Whereupon your Honor's Petter humbly prays your Honor would grant him a Bill of Divorce from said Abigail & release him from all the Obligations he was laid under to Her by force of the Marriage Covenant aforesd. & he as in duty bound shall ever Pray Wallingford Novr 8th 1770 Daniel Clark
Petition of No 71 Daniel Clark Esq. Abigail Clarke 1770 Bett Gmld
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