When Was the First Divorce in America?

On January 5, 1643

The first legal divorce of the American colonies was granted to Anne Clarke.

In the first record of a legal divorce in the American colonies, Anne Clarke of the Massachusetts Bay Colony is granted a divorce from her absent and adulterous husband, Denis Clarke, by the Quarter Court of Boston, Massachusetts.

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When Was the First Divorce in the American Colonies?

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