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Divorce in antebellum America
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Ann Blomquist <[log in to unmask]>
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Ann Blomquist <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 10 Aug 2005 20:08:05 -0400
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I am certain the county courts could grant divorces because my ancestor Richard Hanby (Hamby) married divorced Mary Chilcott Buckland in August 1655 in Northampton County VA. She was granted a divorce from her husband of ten years by the Northampton County Court that year. Richard Buckland also married again-- he married widow Charity Coulson in Sep 1660 in Northampton Co VA (and then proceeded to cause her problems, too).

Ann Blomquist
Orlando, FL


  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: H. B. Gill 
  To: [log in to unmask] 
  Sent: Wednesday, August 10, 2005 7:21 PM
  Subject: Re: Fw: divorce in antebellum America


  For what it's worth, Virginia county courts could grant a separate
  maintenance for a spouse but could not dissolve a marriage.
  HBG

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