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2 month 8^th 1845

No. 6  Alexander Walker was convicted of several burglaries committed in Albany and was sentenced for the term of fifteen years. At the instance of the St. [Andrews] Society in Albany, one half of this term was remitted by Governor Seward [NY governor Jan. 1839-Dec. 1842] on condition of his leaving the state, never to return. He was accordingly discharged yesterday and came directly to this city bringing with him a letter from John Luckey, Chaplain, and Harman Eldridge Principal keeper of Sing Sing Prison – recommending him to the notice of the Prison association. His left side is considerably paralyzed and has been so ever since he was nine years old. He is a native of Grahamstown Scotland where he has respectable connections. The Chaplain and Keeper say “He intends[,] we think, to do well.” Arrived in Boston in 1827. was employed there as a waiter – lived in Boston 6 years and then went to Albany where he was employed as a bar keeper in a Porter cellar- He became intemperate in Boston whereby he lost his character which greatly increased upon him after he went to Albany. He had been in Albany about a year when he commenced his career of crime which he continued till he was arrested and committed to prison in 1837.

I have given him a letter of introduction to Townsend Sharpless and others of Philadelphia-

Andrew Mitchell 57 Exchange Place gave me, for his use, five dollars and Eliza Robbins gave me one dollar making six dollars which I have given to A Walker to pay his expenses to Philadela, [etc.] He was 37 years old last September –

[signature] Alexander Walker 

He stays at Egberts “The Farmers Hotel”

10^th

No. 7  Delivered to David H. Davis one dozen copies of Report of the Prison association for Townsend Sharpless of Philedela, he having applied for them by a letter addressed to DHD.