Knox County Court, Catherine Portee vs Isaac Portee, divorce, 1837

Description:	Catherine Portee files for divorce from Isaac Portee during the September Term of court in 1837. The decree was published for four weeks. The court states that if no answer to demur was made by Isaac Portee by the March Term of court then the cause would be continued. Catherine states her husband a middle aged man of color had taken up with a Miss Sally Griffin and had been seen in her company in the woods and bushes and had abandoned the petitioner.
Origin:	1837
Contributor(s):	Portee, Catherine; Portee, Isaac; Griffin, Sally;
Source:	http://indianamemory.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/kcpl/id/47055
Collection:	Knox County Public Library
Rights:	http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/;
Copyright:	No Copyright - United States;
Geography:	Vincennes, Knox County, Indiana, United States
Subjects:	Black people -- America -- History African Americans -- History Black people -- History Slave records Slave labor Slavery Slaveholders Enslaved women Enslaved men Slavery -- Law and legislation Indentured servants Indiana -- Northwest Indiana -- History Vincennes (Ind.) Knox County (Ind.)

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