Deborah Ann Boyer, sworn.  I was thirty-three last January; I live within one mile of West Chester; I am a married woman; I have lived there since 1835.  I went there with my mother; I can read; I have seen the alleged fugitive before this; I first knew her at Downingtown, when she came to my mother’s house; that was before I had gone to West Chester with my mother; you can tell how long it was, for it was in 1826; my brother was born in that year; I was quite small then; don’t know how she came there; she was with my mother during her confinement; my brother is dead; it is written down in our Testament; and I took an epitaph from it to put on the tombstone; the last time I saw it was when the fellow killed the school-mistress.  I looked because about 1830, a man killed a woman, and was hung, and I wanted to see how long ago it was.  I have seen her more or less ever since, until within two years.  I don’t remember when she went from mother, but I saw her at Mr. Latta’s afterwards.  I have no doubt she is the woman; she was then a slim, tall girl, larger than myself; she is not darker now, but heavier set every way.

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Sarah Gayly affirmed.—­I am between forty-seven and forty-eight years of age.  I live in the city at this time.  I was raised in Chester county, in 1824, and have been here about five years.  I lived in Downingtown nine or ten years.  I lived awhile in West Chester, and lived in Chester county until about five years ago.  I know the alleged fugitive.  I first saw her in the neighborhood of Downingtown, at a place they call Downing’s old stage office; she worked in the house with me; it was somewhere near 1824, just before Lafayette came about; she worked off and on days’ work, to wash dishes; she was a small girl then, very thin, and younger than me.  I met with her, as near as I can tell you, down in the valley, at a place called the Valley Inn.  I used to see her off and on at church, in 1826.  I visited her at Mr. Latta’s, after she lived at the Valley Inn.  I don’t know when she left that county.  I know the alleged fugitive is the same person; she belonged to the same church, Ebenezer.  I know the brothers Cornish, and have whipped them many a time.  I lived with Latta myself, and the Cornish, who is now a minister, lived there; he lived there before I did, and so did the alleged fugitive.  I was then between twenty-three and twenty-five years old; she was a strip of a girl; she was not in the family way when she came there.

Cross-examined.—­I have not seen her since 1826, until I saw her here in the court-room; I recognized her when I first saw her here without anybody pointing her out, and she recognized me; I have reason to know her, because she has the same sort of a scar on her forehead that I have; we used to make fun of each other about the marks; she went by the name of Fanny Coates.  I know nothing about her husband; she did not do the work of a woman in 1826; she washed dishes, scrubbed, etc.  I heard her say her father and mother were dead, and that they lived somewhere in that neighborhood; she at that time made her home with a family named Amos.