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and unanimously decided in the negative. Note: Pettit contrived to evade & compromise this affair by a payment of $100for costs & taking back his wife, with whom he is still living. Martin, her uncle (the prosecutor) sent to Missouri to get evidence concerning the other wife: but it resulted in some doubt as to a real marriage, though there were several children.
National Committee Capt. Shoe Boots. Monday 2d Nov. 1829 The Petition of Peggy & Ta, he, ste, skee, - sisters, of the late Capt: Shoe Boot, of High Tower, praying the General Committee to grant the freedom of two boys, Billy & Lewis, said to be children of the said Catholic. Shoe Boot, by a black woman of his, and granted by the Council, was received & read. After some inquiry & remarks by the members, the question was taken whether the house should concur with the Council & decide in the negative. (Timson alone voting in the affirmative.