Deposition Regarding Gossip

I do hereby certify that Sometime last Spring I was at the house of Mr Jos. Bell, with Mrs. Malvina Gleaves and some short time after we got there, I left the room with Mr Samuel McCammet Miss Catherine Bell Miss Maria Pearce and Mrs Gleaves in it and when I returned to the room again Malvina Gleaves told me that Mr McCammet had just told her that Mary Taylor had been writing Montgomery Friel, and my answer was that I did not believe it that I thought if it was so Montgomery Friel would have been out there before this time, and that Mr McCammet Said he believed it, that he had been creditably informed by a young lady in town that Mary Taylor had written to him, and Mr McCammet said that if he had have went home with Silas Friel he could have seen the letter, that Silas had promised to show the letter to him, and said that he would go shortly and if Silas was at home he would see the letter, and Mrs. Gleaves requested of him to get the letter and let her see it and if it was Mary Taylors hand writing she would know it, and Mr McCammet said that he would memorize it and when he seen her again he would tell her the particulars of it, Given under my hand this 4th day of July 1825

Nancy Gleaves

Nancy Gleaves

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