HABERSHAM CO., GA - COURT RECORDS - Jas. W. Whitfield vs. Matilda
                                    Whitfield, Libel for divorce, 
                                    1830

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Superior Court Writ Record – 1831-1833
Page 64

No. 4 Habersham Superior Court October Term 1830

Jas. W. Whitfield VS Matilda Whitfield} Libel for divorce

Georgia- Habersham County

To the Honorable A(ugusta) S. Clayton judge of the Superior Court of
the said State. Humbly complaining showeth unto your Honor your 
orator James W. Whitfield that heretofore some time in the month of 
May eighteen hundred & twenty nine he married his present wife 
Matilda Whitfield then Matilda Eadens supposing she would make a 
comfortable affectionate & kind companion but so it is may it please
your Honor that instead of realizing these hopes your orator soon 
found his wife Matilda to be unkind indolent incontinent and 
extravagantly wasteful yet your Orator states that he will continue 
to endeavor to dissuade her from her follies and ever treated her 
with the most tender regards and affection for the period of six or 
eight months when the said Matilda his wife becoming so far 
forgetful of her relations as a wife that she secretly took and 
conveyed away your orators horse & saddle without his knowledge or 
consent and in some way disposed of the same but your Orator knows 
not how or in what way or to whom and continued about from your 
Orator for some time strutting through the county with other men 
keeping their company & frequently & openly committing adultery with
them consequent to which your orator states the said Matilda 
returned to him professing penitence for her errors & promised 
reformation yet your Orator saith the said Matilda only remained 
with a few days when returning to her old practices she left the bed
& board of your Orator & took up with & went off to Buncombe County 
with other men daily committing adultery with them and utterly & 
wholly refuses to return to your Orator or to live with him. 
Whereupon your Orator says his peace happiness & prospects of 
connubial filially are destroyed. In tender consideration of all 
which promises your Orator pray for a divorce a vin__ to matrimonii 
& that such other & further proceedings may be had as are usual in 
such cases and your Orator with every pray.

Wm. H. Stutman


Jas. W. Whitfield VS Matilda Whitfield} Libel for divorce

The dependant is hereby required to be and appear personally or by 
attorney at the next Superior Court to be held on the third Monday 
in October next then & there to answer the plaintiff in an action 
for a divorce & as in default there of the court will proceed as to 
justice shall appertain witness the Honorable A.S. Clayton judge of 
said court this 12th day of August 1830.
John T. Carter c.s.c.

Sept 25th the deft is not to be found in this county
A. Mauldin d.shff.
Dismissed
Whereupon it is considered by the court that the deft. do recover of
the plff. The sum of seven dollars seventy five cents for his costs.
W.H. Stutman