Petition asking for a divorce for Seth and Lucinda Marquissee

Petition of 78 inhabitants of Racine and Milwaukee Counites praying that the marriage contract may be annulled between the husband and wife hearin named.

O. Sheldon

Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary - Jany 14th 1845.

To the Honorable Council & House of Representatives of Wisconsin Territory

Your memorialists, citizens of Burlington & Spring Prairie, would respectfully ask your honorable body to annul the marriage contract now existing between Seth H. Marquizee and Lucinda his wife - chiefly for the following reasoning that all hope of said parties living together harmoniously is wholly, and forever dissipated - and the circumstance of the case are such, that the best interes of, not only the parties themselves, but the neighbourhood in which they are both permanently located, would be promoted by such a measure - your memorialists therefore urgently request the passage of a Bill, to divorce said parties.

Dec 25th 1844

Allan Wagener Rufus Billings MJ [illegible] John Raleigh S.A. Martin O. Martin LH Martin Ch Martin Stephen Healy Amon Healy Wm G. Lavis John Bell George Bell Wm Pool P. Gardnee Joseph Devinson Samuel Neff E Salisbury Abel Neff Elkanah Bullock Timothy Bigelow William K Smith Giles Salisbury Thomas W. Millers Orrin Elmer

Elephalet Smith Geo. W. Arms Ja. Dame Charles Dyer Josiah Downs G. Shuber J Shuber Dyer, Read John Seton George Barney Geo Folsom Jonathan Folsom Asa Hollister GW [illegible] HF Marquerat William Portis BF Lorler F. Van. Wagener John Acken LD Eastman Joel Washburn George L. Prentice John Chestnut John Edmonds Alexander H. Tucker VJ Van Horn D Latham David Braun H McLaughlin Orson B. Palmer William Lewis D. Shells Joseph Munty [illegible] James Rooker [illegible] Edmand AL Brayton Andrew Sawyer Origen Perkins OA Perkins Nath. G. Dickinson E.G. Dyer [illegible] Silas Peck W. [illegible] Johnson Geo. A. Hewitt MG Everit Jas [illegible] [illegible] Chamberlin E.O. Wheelock Dan Folsom E.R. Vaughn Lerr Pooridge