Newhanover County NcArchives News.....In Defense of MRS. McMASTER October 15, 1805
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Tues. Oct. 15, 1805, Wilmington Gazette October 15, 1805


   Mr. Printer, in the Wilmington Gazette of the 17th ultimo, is an 
advertisement of MR. WILLIAM McMASTER, saying that his wife has left him 
without provocation and forewarning, all persons from trusting her on his 
account. – A feeling for the misfortune of that unhappy female and some 
respect for public opinion have induced me to publish the following statement, 
in answer thereto.
   When WILLIAM  McMASTER married his wife, she was a respectable young woman 
and worth a considerable property in lands, negroes, etc., all  of which he 
has since sold, and by his intemperance and other bad conduct, his family is 
now reduced to an entire dependence on her friends for subsistence. Being in 
town about three months since, soon after he had sold the last of the Negroes, 
and perceiving the distressed situation of the family, I advised him to remove 
to the country. He said he would not leave town himself, but that he would 
give me $75 a year to board his wife and children, which I agreed to, through 
motives of respect and charity to her and her two children; and I immediately 
took them home with me, where they have remained ever since.
   The notoriety of MR. McMASTER’S  conduct and character, precludes any 
observations on the above; it is , however, laughable to see a man whom no one 
will trust, forewarn the public from trusting another on his account.
                                            NEIL BEARD, SR.
Oct. 1, 1805


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