21282904https://dlas.uncg.edu/petitions/petition/21282904North CarolinaChathamCounty1221829Superior002North Carolina Department of Archives and History, Raleigh, North CarolinaA person of "Strict morality and Virtue," Rachel Hamlet, daughter of the late George Hamlet, asks for a divorce from William Hamlet, who, she asserts, lives a life of "riot and dissipation" engaging in "the most shameful and notorious habits of fornication and adultery" with "women of all classes and colour."AdulteryDivorceForgeryDrunkennessInterracial relationshipsAbandonment