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each is stated. I have a record of their ages and cannot be mistaken.

Cross examined
Corn is selling now [[strikethrough]] from [[/strikethrough]] at 1.50 a bushel  we ground at the mill some 3000 bushels of corn last year.

I commenced last year with very small plantation supplies. Wheeler and Dibbrells cavelry damaged my meadows considerably.

[[signature]] W.R. Holt [[/signature]]
Defendent.

Witness
[[signature]] [[Lony?]] Moore. [[/signature]]

P.G. Haughton being duly sworn testifies as follows. I was present with Dr Holt on the last of August or first of september, when he visited the Freedmans Bureau in Salisbury and heard the conversation between him and the officer Chadwick and Worden. Dr Holt stated that for two reason that he did not wish to keep his negroes, first, that he had been depredated upon by the Confederate