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the 24th as was the statement of the P.O. Clerk, it probably went to the County on the following Wednesday, and almost certainly by the following Saturday. The letters for the residents of the County in general are in this way sent to the Court House and placed in the charge of Mr Henry M. Woodhouse the Commonwealth's attorney or the Clerk of the Court whose name is Burroughs. A letter for the Sheriff or Jailor would certainly take that course. Nothing more could be ascertained from Mr Capps. he asserted that he could not remember to whom he gave the letters the previous day as it was a mere matter of accommodation and not his business to remember or to be particular.

In some manner the intelligence of the pardon of this freeman appeared in a Norfolk paper of the 24th Dec.- the day that the letters arrived. Mr Jackson read the paper to the Court House by the wife of Jesse, accompanied by their son Perry- They delivered the paper to Mr C.P. Ackiss Sheriff of Princess Anne Co. who read it to the Jailor Mr Joseph Chapel. The Sheriff at the same time said to Jesse and Solomon that they had been pardoned and that when he received official notice he would turn them out. He also said that he would leave word with Mr Woodhouse the Commonwealth Attorney what to do.- He, the sheriff, lives nine miles from the Court House and Mr Woodhouse is in the habit of attending to much of the business of the County although it may not be in his immediate department.

On the following day, the 27th both of these men

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