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about which time the said Philips was tried for a criminal offence in the county of Wayne & convicted & sentenced to the State's Prison of New York, for the term of seven years - and under such sentence was committed to the states prison at Auburn.

Your Petitioner states that she cannot set forth particularly the charges & proceedings against her said husband as during the time the foregoing proceedings were had, she had sought & enjoyed a home with her Father in Niagara County in said state.

Your Petitioner further states that since his first arrest above mentioned he has never contributed any thing to the support of your Petitioner.

Your Petitioner further states that she is now informed by letter from the said Pat Philips that he has obtained a release from said imprisonment and is now at large and your Petitioner liable to be interrupted and disturbed in her present comfortable condition by the said Pat Philips that from his heretofore dissolute life she has [illegible] hopes of a reform in him & that under the circumstances she ought not to be compelled to live with him or to be in any manner bound by the marriage contract existing between your petitioner & the said Philips & therefore pray your Honorable body, by an act to be passed for that purpose to divorce your Petitioner from her said husband.

Phebe Phillips