Family:Leonard Owen and Nancy Hampton (1)

Leonard Owen b. 1777 Virginia d. 20 Mar 1856 Washington, Hendricks County, Indiana	Nancy Hampton b. Bef 1788

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Children

		Birth	Death
1.	Archibald Arack Owen	13 Jan 1806 Patrick County, Virginia	Jul 1888 Wilson County, Tennessee

References

↑ Virginia, United States. Virginia Marriages, 1785-1940. (FamilySearch Record Search).

Name: Nancey Hampton
Gender: Female
Marriage Date: 26 Oct 1805
Marriage Place: Patrick, Virginia
Spouse: Leonard Owen
FHL Film Number: 33351
Reference ID: 314-46
↑ Virginia. General Assembly. A Collection of all such acts of the General Assembly of Virginia, of a public and permanent nature, as are now in force: with a table of the principal matters : to which are prefixed the declaration of rights and constitution, or form of government. (Richmond [Virginia]: Virginia State Library, 1973)
pg. 100, 1810.

CHAP. CXIII. An Act divorcing Leonard Owen from his wife Nancy. [Passed Ftbruary 8 1810.] BE it enacted by the General Assembly, That a marriage solemnized between Leonard Owen and a certain Nancy Hampton, shall be, and is hereby dissolved, and the said Leonard forever divorced from the said Nancy; that the power of the said Leonard over the person and property of the said Nancy shall entirely cease, and that the said Leonard shall not he bound by any promise or contract which may here after be made or entered into by the said Nancy.
2. This act shfll be in force from the passing thereof.
↑ Hodes, Martha. White Women, Black Men: Illicit Sex in the Nineteenth-Century South
pg. 247.

30. Leonard Owen - Divorce Petition, Patrick County, Dec. 11, 1809, LPP, LVA: Journal of the House of Delegates, Dec. 9, 1812.