This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Hicks, Sterett, McDaniel Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Cei.2ACEB/4215 Message Board Post: November 28, 1780: State of Pennsylvania, In General Assembly, Nov. 21, 1780 The report made yesterday on the Petition of Giles Hicks, Captain Lieutenant in the 10th Pennsylvania regiment, praying to be divorced from his wife Hester, by reason of her infidelity and infamous conduct, &c. was read the second time, and being considered, it was Resolved, That the said Giles Hicks be permitted to bring in a bill to divorce him from his said wife Hester, agreeable to the prayer of his petition, he, the said Giles Hicks, giving previous notice of his design and this permission, at least three weeks, in the public news-paper printed in the City of Philadelphia, intitled The Pennsylvania Gazette, and Weekly Advertiser. Extract from the Minutes, Samuel Sterett, Clerk. In Consequence of the above resolve, I do hereby give public notice, that I have petitioned the Honourable House of Assembly, for a Divorce from Hester Hicks, alias M'Daniel, for which purpose a bill is depending before the House, of which said Hester Hicks, alias M'Daniel may take notice, in order to make her objections, if any she hath, why said bill should not be passed into a law. Giles Hicks, Captain Lieutenant 10th Pennsylvania Regiment I am not related to this family, I am just passing on this information, which comes from a book titled "Runaway Women, Elopements And Other Miscreant Deeds, As Advertised In The Pennsylvania Gazette - 1728 -1789. (together with a few abused wives and unfortunate children)." Compiled by Judith Ann Highley Meier. Published by Closson Press. 1993. Page 79. Joyce