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and when he had done this, told the Dr. to remove his family as soon as possible, or he should do it by force. Things had now come to a crisis in which further resistance would be vain. The Georgians did not regard their own laws. [If they had they would have respected the bill of Injunction.] Indeed the said agent was understood to say, such proceedings were not in accordance with their own laws, but they were necessary policy. Here we had been crowded into one corner of the house for several weeks. Our school had been broken up and our children sent home. We had no alternative, remove we must. We accordingly gathered together our effects and left Haweis for Brainerd on the 12th of last Feb. [Here much is omitted, relating chiefly to my labours and affairs of my family, while my husband was in prison. Below are some extracts of my visits to him]
A few months after my husband was imprisoned I made him a visit, Our company consisted of Mr. and Mrs. Chamberlain, Mrs. Worcester, myself and my little daughter Mary Cornelia who was six years old. The distance was nearly two hundred miles. Upon arriving in Milledgeville, we introduced ourselves to the Principal keeper of the Penitentiary, who conductd us to the prison. Here the mafry? gates of the wall were opened, and we were introduced into a large open space, and invited to take our seats upon some lumber, as nothing more convenient was at hand. The Keeper ?enced? somewhat? affected and a little discon?ested, as if he did not exactly know the best method of managing the introduction. An under keeper, however, went to inform Mr. Worcester and the Dr. that we had arrived, and to invite them out into the "Court", where we were seated. When they made their appearance we met them as we should have done on any other occasion - heartily glad to see each other and greatly rejoiced to find each
continues at bottom enjoying good health. A few rods distant we should not have known our husbands. Their shirts were of cotton, but as coarse as any torn? bagging I ever saw - and pantaloons of the same. Their shirts and pantaloons were both marked with the initial of their names in black, the letters were as large as the palm of my hand, also with the addition of the figure 4 telling us the number of years they had to live there. Their uerts? were thin? own, as the state found them now? or none?