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^[[ [R 7 ENCL] ]]

March 16th 1868

Mr Ruffin

Dear Sir according to your request I will start you some tobacco for your self & Stronliss [[?]] on the 17th or 18th by Express

While I should of written to you to day if there had ben no tobacco on hand I want you if you pleas to do me the favor to write to the Military Governer and no of him if this man Hugo Hillbrand has the rite to take my corn by forse and give it to any negro he pleases. he has ordered me 3 or 4 times to pay sertin parties corn that is not etitle to it according to my contract with them, and I have as oftin refused to pay it. and now he is going [[strikethrough]] thir [[/strikethrough]] to take it by forse this week and he has as much rite to give my corn to a negro that lived in Raleigh last year as he has to give it to those parties, as you will see when you read this coppy of my contract with them — for my contract not only gives me the rite to hold a part of there crop til

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