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before the court, as required by my bond to Mr. Mercer, I brought her upon the river thinking it would do her good.
I did not then believe that she wod die, but was coming to lay before the Court as required by Mr. Mercer the injury that had been done to the woman and the death of the child.
This was in June last, and when I had been abt 3 days on the river, the Manjy on the boat in [which] she