Mecklenburg County, NC - Richard & Margaret Mason Divorce, 1817

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An Act to establish and confirm the judgement of the superior court
of law of Mecklenburg County, divorcing Richard Mason and his wife 
Margaret Mason, from the bands of matrimony

WHEREAS, it appears from a transcript of a record legally authenticated
that Richard Mason of the county of Mecklenburg, filed his petition in
the clerk's office of the superior court of law for said county,
containing allegations and charges against his wife Margaret Mason,
for committing the crime of adultery, and praying a divorce from the
bands of matrimony; and at the March term of one thousand eight hundred
and fifteen, of the said superior court of law of Mecklenburg county, 
the petition came on to be heard, and the allegations were substantiated 
by evidence and found true by a lawful jury impanneled for that purpose, 
whereupon it was ordered adjudged and decreed, that the petitioner Richard
Mason, be divorced and separated from the bands of matrimony and nuptial 
ties heretofore contracted and entered into with the defendant Margaret
Mason, which judgement, order and decree remain to be established and 
confirmed by an act of this General Assembly.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of North Carolina,
and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That the order,
decree and judgement of the superior court of law of Mecklenburg county
divorcing Richard Mason from his wife Margaret Mason, be and the same
is hereby established and confirmed.


Source:
NC Archives
Public and Private Laws of North Carolina
1817
Chapter LXIV
Page 57-58

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