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matter with a note to the gentleman last named asking him to please inform her what course to pursue. It would seem he got quite angry: said things were not now, as they used to be; that we had upset them all; that such a man ought to be sold; that I ought to attend to it, and make him behave himself, and finally told her that she could either sue him, or have him indicted.

I don't know whether the following has ever been reported or not. There is a crazy colored woman who has been confined in the Jail here now going on two years. The Sherif says he has endeavored to get her admitted into the Asylum at Williamsburg, and also the one at Stanton; lest they are both full. She has some relations, one of which a brother of hers, through Lt. Wardens interference consented to take charge of her. the County, I believe paying for her care, but the party for who he worked was afraid to have her, on their land. she is very, violent at times & has necessarily, to be securely kept. Still her present condition is very wretched. Of course she has not fire in the room with her, & I understand she was badly frozen last winter. The Sherif now talks of sending her to the Poor House, but if even that were not an improper place, on account of the children and others there to whom she might possible do serious harm in the event of her liberating herself it is questionable whether she would be benefited by the changes, that establishment being in a most neglected and dilapidated condition. There is not a single comfort about it. The lights are near by all the windows are broken out, the place is dirty and the paupers hardly have covering enough to protect them from the cold. The overseers of the Poor are all illiterate old drones not one of which is fit

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3.9.2024 - Transcribed per guidelines (spelling transcribed as is - specifically Sherif) and marking for review ---------- Reopened for Editing 2024-03-09 12:11:24