Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1838-06-01

NWR WILLIAM DESKlNS-Sr: Please take no.
I'VE ce that intending to petition the General Assem-.
bly, Of Virginia for divorce from you, have filed in the
Clerks Office Of the Circuit Superior Court Of Law
and Chnncery for the county Of TszeweI, statement
of the causes upon which said application founded and
shall, at the next September term of said Circuit Su.
pernr Cont CT Law aud Chancery for Tazewe county,
ask the said Court 10 Jury 10 be impanneIed 10
ascertain the facts forth in said statement; which
statement Of facts is substance and 10 The effect fol-
lowing:
THAT on the 9th day Of January 1881, she 0he sub.
ecribcr nlermarried with the said William Deskins she
then being not quite fourteen years old that she had
been raised negh bor to the said William Deskins
that they blood relations that the character of the
said William al that period fair and unsullied that
they married with the full and free ofiheir
parents and friends that at The time of their marriage
the said William Deskns very young, perhaps not
twenty years age his character mot fixed nor form
ed-Shurtly after their marriage aforesaid the said
William Deskins went into the State Of Ohio, as he
pretended, with view 10 examine The country for tho
purpose Of removing thereto that while he was there,
lie charged with passing counterfeit bank notes.
and arrested upon said charge, confined in Jail
for some ,ime-was allowed bail, which he gave, and
failed TO appear, forletpg bis recognizance Short
" after, he returned 10 the county Of Tuzewell and
presently removed with your petitioner TO the Stale "f
Illinois Not long after removing 10 the State OF ILL.
nois the said William Deskns left home and was absent
for such length of time that she came TO the conclu
sion that he was dead much so, that she wrote 10
her father in the county of Tazcwe her foorn and mi
serabe condition. and asking his aid and protection it
was promptly afforded and she returned under his pro-
lection To the county of we'll where she has resided
ever since On her way home 10 her futhers, "a last
mentioned, and when within day or twos journey of
the same she was informed Of the fact that the said
William Dsskins not dead, but that he had been
charged with the crime Of larceny the State Of In
diana had been convicted thereof and sentenced 10 the
penttniiary Of said State, and then inmate at
the said institution having been sentenced thereto for
the period of years which she afterwards ascertain
ed TO be true: that she understands he convicted
under the name of Ben amn Onry-hat lie was arrest
ed in the State Of Ohio under the name OF William Sell
lers. ~
"IJpon the marriage before stated the raid William
Deskns was in the pnssrssc Of property amounting 10
one thousand dollars theeabou's and the petitioners
father advanced 10 her, property of Var"ns kinds land
&c worth or estimated al $4,000: all u; which money
and nrop.rty The said William Deskins wosted previous
IN The removal TO Illinois: and upon their starting TO H.
lros her father again set them up by advancement
uf property, which Tue saio "h'd" Deeh'h' Hhe"se
wasted and lost
living with the said William De,kins his wife, she
always conducted herself vile should, and in all
,b;,gs eDGeayored TO render him happy that prior
The time she last him, she had borne him two chill
dren both that when he left her, stated before,
in The Slate Of Illinois. she that situation that no
husband could would leave the bel pess wife in and
that anloug Strangers that long after he left her,
she had TO him another child, daughter.
iSnce the petitioners return 10 Ihzewel ana since
the time for which the said William Oesklns was sent
10 the Peni,entiay Of Indiana has expired she has re-
ceived two letters from the said Wm Deskns announc
ing his intention not TO return 10 ner IN virginia. ana
she charge. that he has wholly abandoned her:
And al said Court you are required 10 attend.
REBECCA DESKiNS.
coov-Tes,e, G. W. G. BROWNE.
o'p' D. {. c. s. C. L. &. Oh for TssspeA.
T.zewel county, juno /, le35 7-w4w