Note 995 — Chapter XV · DIVORCE IN THE AMERICAN COLONIES

On April 22, 1760, for this offense "William Arbuthnot, Esq.," secured a divorce from his wife. In his petition he explains "that the reason of his application to this Court, before ... Eleanor hath been legally convicted of adultery by the course of Common Law, is, because the said Eleanor before she could be prosecuted" absconded ... and still continues out of the jurisdiction of the Common Law Courts of this Province": see Table III, No. 1. In Nos. 17, 20, 41, 56, and 57 the decree is based in part on proceedings in other courts; while in Nos. 78 and 80 such proceedings are pleaded.