P 401 Georgia - Madison County The Grand Jury sworn chosen & selected for the county of Madison to wit: James Long, Francis P Eberhart, Berry M. David, Daniel Taylor, Abraham simmons, John Collins, James Cauthen, James Pinson, Samuel Whitworth, Mora David, Shirling Chandler, Jonathan Sanders, Robert Williams, William Benton, Thomas Long, William C Carithers, Samuel Seegar, Barzilla Vanderford In the name and behalf of the citizens of Georgia charge and accuse George Bragg of the state and county aforsaid with the offence of assault and battery. For that on the first of August eighteen hundred and thirty nine in the County & state aforesaid tho said George with force the body of one Molly T Bragg and make a violent assault and he the said George the said Molly T did unlawfully beat bruise wound and ill treat and other wrongs he the said George then & there did unto the said Molly T contrary to the said state the good order peace & dignity thereof True Bill J L Sept Term 1840 James Long JL And now comes the defendent by his attorney Benj F Hardaman says that he is not guilty in manner & form set forth in this bill of indictment of this he puts himself on the county and by way of plea in this behalf of this defendant says that if he was assaulted & beat the said Molly T Bragg in manner & form in the Bill of Indictment which he in no wise admits this defendant said assault & Battery was not committed at any time within two years next proceeding the finding of said bill & this he is ready to & pray judgement puts himself upon the county B T Hardaman Off attty We the Jury find the defendant Guilty William W Power, Form Fined in the sum of twenty five dollars on payment of which & cost to be disharged Recorded Rufus M. Murray CLK ---------------------------------------------------------------- P 324 Georgia - Madison County To the Honorable the Superior Court of said county & state The petition of Molly T Bragg formerly Molly T Berryman hearwith that your petitioner influenced by the sincerest love and affection for George Bragg intermarried with the said George Bragg which he became the husband of your petitioner on the first day of January eighteen hundred and eliven and that for and during the period of about five years thereafter lived happy and contented with her said husband that at the expiration of that time your petitioner begain to discover that the love and affections of the said George had become entirely estranged from her and that his general conduct was wholly derrogatory to that duty and behaviour which he owed to your petitioner as a kind affectionate and Lawful husband that the said George has at diverse time and various occasions ill used insulted and abused your petitioner in the most outrageous manner by the most vexatious conduct so as to manifest a total disregard of his duties and the rights of your petitioner insomuch the wrongs became too insufferable to be born by her from one who instead of being her companion and protector had refused for months to associate or cohabit with her or discharge any of the duties incidental to the matrimonial state but forcibly compelled your petitioner to leave his house and explicitly forbid her ever returning and more casting your petitioner upon the world without a home and without the means of support that the said George in various occasions and at diverce times before and after seperating from your Proctor pro libellant Georgia - Madison County To the Sheriff of said County - Greeting Molly T Bragg and George Bragg Libel for Divorce The defendant is hereby required personally or by attorney to be and appear at a Suiperior Court to be held in and for said County on the Second Monday in September next then & there to answer the Plaintiff in an action of Libel for divorce. Or in defaults thereof the Courts will proceed threrin as to Justice Witness the Honorable Garnett An of our said Court this 25th day of March, Eighteen hundred and forty one. Rufus M. Menney CLK May the 4th 1841 Personally served a copy of the within report on thew Defendant George Bragg. John A Thompson Sheriff A Schedule of property owned by George Bragg and Molly T Bragg at the time of separation - One tract of land of (1,000) acres nine do number acres unknown two negroes six head horses eighteen head of cattle two ox carts number of hogs unknown four beds and their bed steads two tables and two chest and side board fifty chains on loom tow wheels two pots & two ovens & small pot eithteen geese number of ohter fowls unknown one note of five hundred and six dollars Georgia - Madison County ) Inferior Personnaly appeared before a Justice of Court Molly T Bragg who being duly sworn saith that this figuring is a true schedule of the property owned by George Bragg and this deponent at the time of their seperation in the year eighten Hundred thirty-seven to the best of her knowledge belief and remembrance Molly (her X mark) Bragg Sworn subscribed to before me this 8th day of February 1841 Elisha Warr II C March Term 1843 Molly T Bragg vs George Bragg Libel for Divorce We the special jury find tht sufficient proof have been ofered to our consideration to authorize a total divorce that is to say a Divorce A Venculo Matrimoni upon Legal principals between the parities in this case. We also find for Motty T Bragg to have a childs part of their property contained in the schedule that is to say one sixth the remainder to remain in the hands of George Bragg for the support of himself and children. Adkinson Tabor For ------------------------------------------------------------------ March Term 1843 Molly T Bragg vs George Bragg Libel for Divorce - Verdict for Libellant Wherefore it is considered by the court the parties be divorced a vinculo Matrimonii and that one sixth of the property filed in the schedule be decreed to the Plaintiff and the remainder to remain in the hands of the defendant for the support of the defendant and his children according to the berdict of the Jury and the defendant bi in mercy. March 18, 1843 Henry P Strickland Sol Pro Libellant P 241 (?) The Inferior Court Setting for ordinary purposes for the use of the children of George & Molly T Bragg vs George Bragg Rule - Rule discharged The applicants being disatisfied with the decision of the court and paid all the cost came farward by Henry P Strickland their attorney and prayer an appeal the appeal being granted the said Henry P Strickland Attorney and Walters H Griffeth his security comes forward and bound themselves for the condemnation money & all future cost in terms of the law witness our hand & seals this 10th day of September 1841 Henry P Strickland (seal) atty Walters H Griffeth (seal) Georgia - Madison County I do certify that the above and foregoing is a true extract from the minutes of said court. Given under my hand and seal of office this 13th day of September 1841 Rich B Gholston C CO We the jury make a mistrial We the jury find for the defendant Rich B Gholston FLL John E Caldwell FKK Whereupon it is considered by the court that the defendant and George Bragg do of the Plaintiff and applicants in this rule (towit) Molly T Bragg and her children the sum of dollard and cents for his cost laid out & expended in the of this rulle and that the applicants be in a March 15th 1845 Gabriel Nash Defts Atty Recorded 25th August 1843 Rufus McMonney CLC