Reported On This Day 280 Years Ago (May 29 1739): ‘I will not pay debts of my eloping wife,’ says husband
From the Belfast News Letter of May 18 1739 (which is May 29 in the modern calendar):
May 3d 1739
WHEREAS ELIZABETH JOHNSTON, formerly of Ratten, in the Parish of Ardstra in the County of Tyrone, who intermarried with Robert Russel, of Omah [sic] in said County, hath lately eloped from her said Husband.
NOW, I the said Robert Russel do give this PUBLICK NOTICE, that none may credit her ther said Elizabeth; otherwise, if they do, they need not expect to be paid by me,
ROBERT RUSSEL.