Massachusetts Archives Collection. v.9-Domestic Relations, 1643-1774. SC1/series 45X, Petition of Nicolas Brown

Petition subject: Support for individuals Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13908972 Date of creation: 1750-09-27 Petition location: Westfield Selected signatures:Nicolas Brown Actions taken on dates: 1750-10-10,1751-02-08 Legislative action: Received in the Council on October 10, 1750 and read and ordered that a hearing be had on this petition on the second Wednesday of the General Court next sitting and that the petitioner serve his wife with a copy of this petition that so she attend this board to answer this complaint and received in Council on Fryday the 8th of February 1751 and read again and the petitioner appeared before this board, and made return of the service of his complaint upon his wife Agnes Brown, the said Agnes not attending the Board and the petitioner produced his evidence to support the complaint and the matter being fully considered and ordered that the petitioner Nicholas Brown be and hereby is divorced from his wife Agnes Brown to all intents and purposes whatsoever and the bonds of their marriage dissolved and that the petitioner have liberty to marry again Total signatures: 1 Legislative action summary: Received, read, ordered, received, read, ordered Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 1 Female only signatures: No Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript Additional archivist notes: Nicholas Brown, Agnis Knox, Agnes Knox, Blandford, Primus, adultery, mulattoe child, divorce, Spencer Phipps, Spencer Phips, [see volume for additional documents] Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Massachusetts Archives volume 9, page 349 Acknowledgements: Supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-5105612), Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, Center for American Political Studies at Harvard University, Institutional Development Initiative at Harvard University, and Harvard University Library.