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see her old Mistress & get her to take them & raise them for her. 
The parties that got hold of them in Town were to hold them only temporarily, & when Dick wanted to take them to Mrs. B they refused to give them up. After some months delay, Dick & Mrs. B, through your interposition, I believe, & the Civil Authorities have succeeded in placing the children under Mrs B's charge. 
The present move, Dick says results from meanness, & a Quarrel that he had perhaps, with the parties at the time he succeeded in releasing the children from them. 
One of the children to my personal knowledge, as well as, that of others here, was treated very badly & cruelly, tied to a bed post & beat (so Dick says) almost every day. I saw the child after Dick put her in Mrs B's charge & I believe she would have died, had she not been taken good care of, before winter was over. Dick became so enraged about it that I had to lose him for several days out of my crop to leave the matter settled. 
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