1755-001: Bridget Braithwaite by etc. vs. Edward Braithwaite.

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Divorce/Separate Maintenance. The plaintiff accuses the defendant of abandonment and cohabiting with "a woman of ill fame and reputation" in the same parish and county. She sues for support, claiming she and her children will be left to support themselves on her labor, which, she argues, "is very little being upwards of 47 years of age and very infirm." The couple was married in 1729.

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