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Christian Davis being duly sworn testifies as follows, I have delivered three seventy nine bushels of corn sold off the plantation there was about twenty five hundred bushels cribbed about three hundred bushels were used before it was cribbed, all the toll corn from the mill has been used at the plantation and at Lexington except thirty six bushels of meal  More toll corn from the mill has been received than the amount sold from the plantation.

Cross examined
Four wagons were used in hauling the corn to the cribs, two of these wagons will hold twenty eight bushel to the load and two thirty five bushel to the load, the cribbs are twenty feet long and ten feet wide and five feet high  there was five of these cribb filled with shucked corn, witness states that he cut and haulled wood for the negroes while they were setting by the fire.

[[signature]] Christian Davis [[/signature]]
witness for defendent

Witness
[[signature]] Forry Moore [[/signature]]

Transcription Notes:
"selling by the fire" correct? "setting" makes more sense to me -- Beth