Letter to mother

Containers:
Box 1, Folder 17
Scope and content:

"The woman arrested sometime ago for killing the Watchman, has been tried and acquitted on the ground that she committed the murder in Self-Defense. Charles Austin, Marye's Brother, was to be tried for seduction and breach of promise of marriage but the case was compromised before it came into court by his Father paying the girl's father five hundred and fifty dollars. Another girl sued Skiles Austin for a case of the same nature.The male portion of that family have turned out badly"

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College of William and Mary
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College of William and Mary
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