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Divorce and Annullments
Divorce of Eliza Ann Boyd and James Boyd
Kent County, Maryland
Session Laws, 1836
LAWS OF MARYLAND
Passed Mar 6, 1837.
An act to Divorce Eliza Ann Boyd, of Kent County, from her husband James Boyd.
Divorce
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That Eliza Ann Boyd, of Kent county, be and she is hereby divorced from her husband James Boyd; and the marriage heretofore had and solemnized between them, is hereby declared to be null and void; and the said parties are hereby divorced a vincuto matrimonii.
Source: Archives of Maryland
http://www.mdarchives.state.md.us/
Annullment of the marriage of Joseph & Elizabeth Boyd
Prince George's County, Maryland
Journal of the House of Delegates 1805
VOTES AND PROCEEDINGS, NOVEMBER SESSION 1805.
Mr. Van-Horn, from the committee, also delivers to the speaker a bill, entitled, An act annulling the marriage of Joseph Boyd, of Prince-George's county, and Elizabeth his wife; which was read the first time and ordered to lie on the table.
Journal of the House of Delegates 1805
VOTES AND PROCEEDINGS, NOVEMBER SESSION 1805.
he bill annulling the marriage of Joseph Boyd, of Prince-George's county, and Elizabeth his wife, was read the second time, and the question put, Shall the said bill pass? Determined in the negative.
Session Laws 1807
VOTES AND PROCEEDINGS, NOVEMBER SESSION 1807.
The bill annulling the marriage of Joseph Boyd, and Elizabeth his wife, was read the second time, and the question put, Shall the said bill pass? The yeas and nays being required, appeared as follow:
AFFIRMATIVE. 27
NEGATIVE. 21
So it was resolved in the affirmative.
The house adjourns until to-morrow morning 9 o'clock.
Journal of the House of Delegates 1807
VOTES AND PROCEEDINGS, NOVEMBER SESSION
SATURDAY, December 19, 1807.
A petition from Joseph Boyd, of Prince-George's county, praying a divorce, was preferred, read, and referred to Mr. Callis, Mr. Page and Mr. Carroll, to consider and report thereon.
Journal of the House of Delegates 1807
By the HOUSE of DELEGATES, January 2, 1808
Mr. Callis, from the committee, delivers to the speaker a bill, entitled, An act annulling the marriage of Joseph Boyd and Elizabeth his wife; which was read the first time and ordered to lie on the table.
TUESDAY, January 5, 1808.
The bill annulling the marriage of Joseph Boyd, and Elizabeth his wife, was sent to the senate by the clerk.
NOVEMBER. LAWS OF MARYLAND. CHAP. C III.
Passed 20th of January 1808.
An ACT annulling the marriage of Joseph Boyd Prince-George's County, Maryland
Preamble.
WHEREAS it is represented to this general assembly, by the petition of Joseph Boyd, of Prince-George's county, that in the year eighteen hundred he intermarried with a certain Elizabeth Tate of said county; that in the month of April, eighteen hundred and one, she eloped from him, and went to reside with her parents, that after about two weeks he prevailed on her to return, and she continued to live with him until July following, when she again eloped, and. hath ever since refused to return and live with him; that in the spring of eighteen hundred and three she left this state, and went into London county, in the state of Virginia, with a certain Thomas Donnell, where she continued to reside until the month of August last, when she returned to this state, and hath since been delivered of a child, which she has requested a justice of the peace for Prince-George's county to permit her to swear to a person in Virginia, thus avowing her adulterous and disgraceful conduct; and the allegations in the said petition being proved to the satisfaction of this general assembly, therefore, Marriage declared void, &c.
II. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the marriage of the said Joseph Boyd, and Elizabeth his wife, heretofore solemnized, be, and the same is hereby declared to be, absolutely and to all intents and purposes, null and void, and that the said Joseph Boyd, and Elizabeth his wife, are hereby declared to be divorced a vinculo matrimonii; provided, that nothing in this act contained shall illegitimate any issue of the said Joseph Boyd, and Elizabeth his wife, born prior to the year eighteen hundred and three.
Source: Archives of Maryland
http://www.mdarchives.state.md.us/
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