Note 1046 — Chapter XV · DIVORCE IN THE AMERICAN COLONIES
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Peter Talman got a divorce on his wife's confession of adultery: Arnold, Hist. of R. I., I, 320; and it "was ordered that Thomas Genings shall goe and demand his wife to live with him, but in case she refuse, he shall make his addresses to the General Court of Commissioners."—R. I. Col. Rec., I, 312. Ann Talman, the divorced wife of Peter, referred to, was later more than once whipped for her misconduct: ibid., II, 187,188.