The Patowmac Guardian, And Berkeley Advertiser

TO THE PUBLIC.

WHEREAS my husband, George Tabler, did, in this paper, of Monday last, caution all persons from crediting any one on his account, without his written or personal approbation, and presuming that advertisement was levelled at me, in consequence of my being absent from him, I beg leave to state the unfortunate cause which at present Separates us, and leave an impartial public to judge whether I am, or am not, an injured woman.

Some short time since, my son was about to marry a woman who then had another husband living- feeling as a mother ought to feel (and a father too, had he not lost his senses) I opposed the design, as far as in my power lay; notwithstanding which, my son, by art, obtained the approbation of his father, and they were married ; soon after, my son with this abandoned and shameless woman came home, when almost immediately my husband, son, and his guilty wife, began abusing me, and through the influence the two latter had with the former. he beat me, and drove me from the house ; I then took shelter on our other plantation, but he there followed me and drove me off, and not only keeps me away, without any subsistence from him what-ever, but is wasting the property we mutually laboured to obtain ; these are truths, and the cause of our separation, and I call upon George Tabler to deny them if they are not so.

CATHARINE TABLER.
August 4, 1794.