Delilah ? died date unknown. She married James Long on 1793.
Notes for Delilah ?: 1804 Divorce Petition: Delilah Long, wife of James Long
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The Petition of Delilah Long
The House of Commons 30th November 1804 Read and ref'd to the Committee of Divorce and Alimony By order J Haas
In Senate Novem'b 30th 1804 Read and referred as by the House of Commons By Order M Stokes clk
Bozman
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Grants what property she may hereafter acquire
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To the Honorable the General Assembly of the State of North Carolina.
The petition of James [strikethrough] Delilah Long humbly showeth that your peitioner intermarried a few years ago, with a certain James Long whose conduct was so highly imporoper that their property was soon exhausted at which time your petitioner was wholly abandoned by the said James; and since his departure your petitioner has accumulated by her industry some property which with care may be sufficient to support your petitioner; and as the said property is subject (if he should ever return) to his extravagance and waste she therefore prays that your honorable body will pass an act to secure to your petitioner such property as she now has or may hereafter acquire by industry purchase or otherwise; and she as in duty bound will ever pray
Delilah Long
More About Delilah ? and James Long: Marriage: 1793
Children of Delilah ? and James Long are:
+Peter Long, b. Abt. 1793, Burke County, N.C., d. date unknown, ?.