Newhanover County NcArchives News.....REPLY TO JOHN WOODS' NOTICE March 18, 1806
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Tues., March 18, 1806, Wilmington Gazette March 18, 1806

Whereas JOHN WOODS has given himself the trouble to inform the public in the 
last week’s Gazette that I have absconded from his bed and board, without 
provocation, I have taken the same method to convince them that I have had the 
most urgent provocations, amongst which his not providing vituals, clothing, 
or any other necessary are the least, but he has had the inhumanity frequently 
to beat and bruise me even to the danger of my life, which any man of honor, 
or principle would scorn the idea of doing, and instead of providing for me, 
as he was duty bound to do, he has infamously robbed me of my wearing apparel 
and other things that I had collected by my labor. To any person that these 
reasons are not sufficient for my leaving him may be an eye witness to his 
maintaining a mulatto wench in his house to partake of his bed and board, by 
which he degrades himself beneath the dignity of the brute beast.
Wilmington, March 18, 1806                        ELIZA WOODS


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