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July 18. 1807.
My beloved wife,
I am in receipt at
3am of the 15th.
I am deeply distraught to. find
that you have been made to
feel so badly at a matter
about Wally and [time] I thought,
from what passed, mett
your approbation. The affect
of the body Jackson, I thought
from the evidence before me
which I examined with
care that he was an accom-
plice in the burning and under
the circumstances regarded it as
a duty to have have fact
investigated. I did not
examine all the rest of the
servants for [illegible] only
who I thought was most