First Divorce In The Colonies -- This Day In History -- 1/5/1643

Why Today Marks A Significant Divorce Milestone

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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