Viewing page 167 of 294

This transcription has been completed. Contact us with corrections.

set apart in Eastville for school and church purposes as there are at least (50) fifty children there that could be gathered into a school and requested the Asst Supt to request the Society at Boston to furnish a teacher; also requested the Asst Supt to encourage the people to get up and maintain a Sabbath school which they seemed desirous of doing.  

I tried to determine as far as possible the truth or falsity of the statements of Miss Brown in reference to Dr. Sidney and wife. I think she was right in some of her statements and wrong in others.  The Dr. does take his whisky and his wife says she "can't do without it" they had it and Claret wine in decanters on the sideboard which was free to all the members of the family but could not find as he ever got drunk. The fact is he is a Mississippian and is an educated, free hearted Gentleman of the southern type. And his wife an out spoken and jovial Lady of bright and accute intellect but not religious.  The Dr. did "kill the hog but it was to feed the poor people at this farm

Transcription Notes:
---------- Reopened for Editing 2024-01-19 18:56:14 ---------- Reopened for Editing 2024-01-19 20:17:23 ---------- Reopened for Editing 2024-01-20 22:22:54