Person County, NC - MISCELLANEOUS - Bond V. BROWN and Susannah KERNS Rejected Request fot Divorce File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by Ms. Louise Overton ------------------------------------------------------------------- NC General Assembly Records Petitions and Divorce Nov-Dec 1811 Box 3 Bond V. BROWN of Caswell County, North Carolina, "sheweth that he intermarried with a certain Susannah KERNS in the month of August, 1791. We lived in peace and harmony until 1800 when without any provocation whatever that I had any knowledge of, the said Susannah left my bed and board leaving with me four children, one of which was at the breast, and went off with a man by the name of Joshua PYRON to the state of Tennessee with whom she has lived in a state of adultery and abandoment ever since." Your petitioner has been credibly informed the said Susannah is still living with said PRYON and has had five children by him. Your petitioner has some property which may be serviceable to his said children at his death and having a wish that the said Susannah nor her children should enjoy any lawful title or claim to the same he prays a law securing to him what property he now has or hereafter may acquire. DIVORCE REJECTED ------------------------------------------------------------------------ USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, data may be freely used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages cannot be reproduced in any format for profit or other presentation.