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along well together as man & wife, that they are in the habit of fighting each other - That one cause of ther aragument [[argument]] was about his consequence of the hill treatment of Nelson to her children - & his roaming after other women. That he the said Nelson was in the habit of trying to have sexual intercourse with her little girls, Hennie & Viola. That if some times was the case that the [[strikethrough]] littl [[/strikethrough]] children could scarcely walk from injuries of their privates [[strikethrough]] by the [[/strikethrough]] inflicted by the said Nelson - That the children & their mother Almedia reported these things to witness and in two or three instances Newson himself acknowledged his guilt to witness had whipped said Nelson often for [[strikethrough]] it [[/strikethrough]] his abuse in this way of the children - [[strikethrough]] That both Nelson and [[/strikethrough]] That the characters of both Nelson and Almedia is bad - That Almedia is a strumpet in her intercourse with men -
I J. Horn was then sworn and stated That he knew something about the freedman in question - That Almedia 7 some of her children was at his house about the middle of Dec last hunting a home, that she stated to him that she had nothing in the world to live on - and that she would work herself and put in her children with any body that would just give them bread to eat. That they would not require meat or clothes - That he heard of there going about in the country making this same offer to other persons -