In 1696 Robert Hyde and his wife Jane sued one Lewis Delany for slander and Jane was awarded 500 pounds of tobacco in damages. However, later in the same year, Hyde left his wife, who was now without support. When called to court he promised to take care of her as well as "to allow her the society of her children."
(William and Mary Quarterly, 1st Series, 3, 270; 6, 126; Tyler's Quarterly Historical and Genealogical Magazine, 2, 271.)
