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Divorce Decree

September the 27th 1793

Lewis Robards                  Plff   
against                                                                   In Adultery
Rachel Robards                 Deft  

This day came the Plaintiff by his Attorney, and thereupon came also a Jury, Towit: James Bradsberry, Thomas Smith, Gabriel Slaughter, John Lightfoot, Samuel Work, Harrison Davis, John Ray, Obadiah Wright, John Miles, John Meaux, Joseph Thomas, and Benjamin Lawless who being Elected tried and sworn well and truly to inquire into the allegation in the Plaintiff's Declaration Specefied upon their Oath do say that the Defendant Rachel Robards hath deserted the Plaintiff, Lewis Robards and hath and doth Still live in adultery with another man. It is therefore considered by the Court that the Marriage between the Plaintiff and the Defendant be dissolved.

Source:

Kentucky State Archives, Court of Quarter Sessions Book, 1792-96, p. 105.