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they were working, white hands had to be employed to save the crop. some of the corn as it was was damaged as it was for the want of cribbing. the negroes refused to cut and haul firewood for themselves. I and other white men on the place had to cut and haul wood for them, as a general thing the negro refused to kill the hogs for their own meat. I and other white men had to do it for them  sometimes the negroes would assist. There were two millers at the mill, one hand could well of attended the mill, there was never to my knowledge more than one run of stone grinding at the same time.

Peter was very sickly  had a bad cough. Elleck had the rhumatism. Peter had a wife and four children. Elleck had a wife and little girl living with him. Peters wife worked a little. Horace a child of