7. I spent the day in the Legislative Council. We had a
cold snowy day. I visited Col R. Burton in the Evening I
found him sick confined to his bed. He gave me a cirtifica[te]
to the guard to visit Luce in prision who was awaiting his
sentence to be shot I found him vary cheerful full of
hope that his sentence would be commuted to confinement
in the penetentiary. He had no Idea of Dying. He said it
would take a man of more nerve than he had to give
himself up to be executed & he should not do it he did not
say how he would avoid it. I wrote a letter to My Brother
Thompson Woodruff
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I had a child quite sick I administered to it & it was heeled
