[1083] Bishop, op. cit., I, § 1396. Cf. Hewitt v. Hewitt, 1 Bland, 101: Crane v. Meginnis, 1 Gill and J., 463, or 19 Am. Decisions, 237; Wright v. Wright's Lessee, 2 Md., 429, or 56 Am. Decisions, 723.
[1084] Case of Crane v. Meginnis, 1 Gill and J., 468; 19 Am. Decisions, 237-42. Cf. also Wright v. Wright's Lessee, 2 Md., 429, or 56 Am. Decisions, 723-33.
[1085] See chap. xvii, sec. ii.
[1086] Case of Head v. Head (1847), 2 Kelly, Georgia Reports, 191-211. Cf. on the same point, Finch v. Finch, 14 Ga., 362: and Brown v. Westbrook, 27 Ga., 102, which varies from the two other decisions.
[1087] See chap. xiv, above.
[1088] These three cases are in the New York Colonial MSS., 1630-1664: Dutch: Part First, VI, 49; VIII, 415, 417, 419; X, 291, 293. They were first brought to light by Cowley, Our Divorce Courts, 32, 33.
[1089] This was a case of alleged incest: O'Callaghan, Doc. Rel. to Col. Hist., N. Y., II, 704.
[1090] Case of desertion and adultery: N. Y. Col. MSS. (translation from the Dutch), XXIII, 248; also, with slightly different translation, in O'Callaghan, op. cit., II, 730.
[1091] Case of elopement with adultery, Dec. 15, 1661: Gerard, The Old Stadt Huys, 386, 387; also in O'Callaghan, op. cit., XII, 359, where we read: "This fine priest demanded with great circumstantiality in the above-mentioned meeting a decree of divorce on account of his wife's flight and received the same, subject to your Honors' approval, on the 15th of December" (letter from Beeckman to Stuyvesant and others, dated at Altona, South River, Feb. 1, 1662).
[1092] Records of New Amsterdam, III, 73.