Divorce Petition Manette Provost vs. Eugene Borel, St. Mary, LA Submitted by: Joyce Firmin ********************************************** Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm ********************************************** Suite # 253 St. Mary Parish Manette Provost vs. Eugene Borel (her husband) The petition of Manette Provost, wife of Eugene Borel, both of St. Mary Parish, with respect represents that she entered marriage many years since with the said Eugene Borel and for a long time after said marriage received the protection and enjoyed the comfort which she had reason to hope for from that communion but for some time back the said Eugene Borel has wholly and totally changed his conduct in regard to your petitioner and has treated her so cruelly, committed such outrages and carried his ill treatment to such a pitch as to render your petitioner's living any longer with him insupportable. your petitioner further states that she brought into the marriage with the said Eugene, her dowry, the sum of $1200, that since the contracting of said marriage, her father, the late Francois Provost has died and that on opening of his succession and the division thereof a certain negro man named George, 7/8 of an arpent of land in front with the ordinary depth of forty on the Bayou Teche, a tract on the But de Peigniere 1 arpent front at the Isle de Peniere was partaken by your petitioner as her part, wherein of which property there now remains the negro man George, an arpent front at the Isle de Peniere, the rest that is the 7/8 arpent front on the Bayou Teche having been sold for the sum of $514.00 and the tract at the But de Peniere for $200.00, which money has been received by the said Eugene. Your petitioner further states that at the opening of the succession of the said Francois Provost aforesaid, there was a tract of land in dispute between Francois Provost and other persons, the title to which being uncertain, your petitioner claims the same. Petitioner claims _________ has been sold to Francois Provost, fils for $50 which sum of money remains yet due and unpaid. Your petitioner further states that since her intermarriage to the said Borel their property has been augmented by acquests and gains, the estate of their joint care, and mutual industry, which acquests as far as your petitioner can at present ascertain, consists of a crop of cotton and corn now growing, a debt due by Mme. Francois Collet for $4500 for 1/2 of a tract of land on Bayou Teche sold by your petitioner's husband Borel, 5 arpents of land on said Bayou with the ordinary depth, a negro man named Opa, a negro named Marianne with her children Augustine, Sophie, Josephine, Marie Therese, together with a quantity of cattle and horses, also five arpents of land in front with the ordinary depth situated at the Island de Bayou Choupique, which enumeration your petitioner prays may be received without prejudice to her rights if she should hereafter discover any error therein. Your petitioner further states that since her intermarriage with said Eugene Borel there have been born children of said marriage: Eugene Borel, now of age, Doralise Borel, Fulgere Borel, Valsin Borel, Cidalise Borel, Valcour Borel, and Dezincourt Borel all minors. The premises considered, your petitioner prays that an inventory may be made of all property now possessed in community by petitioner & said Eugene Borel, thereafter making the same your honor (would?) make a decree ordering and directing that the property brought by your petitioner through marriage which yet exists in kind be set apart as belonging to your petitioner and the rest be sold by public auction that out of the proceeds thereof there be paid to your petitioner the amount of her dowry and extra total effects designated during marriage and that the acquests and gains pending the coverture be equally divided between your petitioner & said Eugene Borel, that the said profit be placed in the hands and under the control of your petitioner _______ and that she be separated in bed and board from the said Eugene. The petitioner craves that the said Eugene be _________ according to law to show cause if any he has, why the said decree should not be made in the premises, and finally your petitioner for such other and further relief as equity and justice demand. A. Porter, Jr. atty. for petitioner filed 14 Sept. 1820