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She would find M^rs Martin a house at Winter
Quarters and furnish a Teamster to take
her over the River. He would take send a
he would send back a team & take then both
on to the Valley said after playing with her
a month. M^rs Martin went off & was gone a year
and a half & her child was left to my care, & I could
not go to the Valley as I had made this contract
with Mitchel to take her on I kept the gold
by me some time & finally changed it.
M^rs Martin question, by Pres^t O Hyde was it the
arrangement for you to come & live with M^rs Hamblin
& I never made a contract with her, B^r Mitchel
asked if one house would do for us both, I told him
if it suited me I would consent to it & I [pas====]
submitted , How long did you aggree to live with
her. Ans I had a little to buy some flour and threw
in some beans & lived with her a month & left the Child
with her.--------------------------------------------------
Sister Hamblin said she claimed the Gold Dust on the
ground of the agrement of Mitchel promising to help
to the Valley, that she fulfilled every contract with
[==========]& intended to do so. She did not claim
any thing until she got to the Valley she had a
a standing that with Mitchel; She kept Sister[ =======]
child 78  weeks & charged 75 ^cts per ^week for him which would
be 58, 50. B^r M^cDonald said that he lived close by them
that M^rs martin disappered & the boy was left in the charge
of M^rs Hamblin. She took care of the  cattle & worked at
hoeing and putting in a Crop  the Boy is  now with
me and I believe he is worth his keeping
Questⁱⁿ by M^rs Martin, Did you think M^rs Hamblin kept[ ===]
Joseph King affidavil was read to the Council by the clerk paper [==]
Ans I have seen you go nito the [=====] to work
B^r Hopkins said he was the Boy being chores
& he thought that it was more trouble to get
the Boy, at it , than to do the chores