In the Matter of the Petition of Edward Middleton, to the General Assembly of Pennsylvania, for a Divorce from His Wife: Statement of the Respondent to the Legislature caption title

by Law, Trials

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First edition

Philadelphia: np, 1850. First edition. 8vo. 18 pp. From a prominent South Carolina family and a career United States naval officer, Middleton was unsuccessful in an attempt to divorce his wife in his home state, based on stories of her infidelity; he then attempted to have a special law for a divorce passed in Pennsylvania. This pamphlet records his wife's side of the story OCLC locates two copies Library of Congress, New York Historical Society . Disbound

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