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have no reliable certain rule by which to apportion the ages of these 110 negroes, - I am satisfied that it would be fair to estimate one fourth of the whole number as under 10 years of age, - but to remove the calculation beyond the region of a doubt I will estimate one third of the whole number as under 10 years of age. This leaves 73 negroes of 10 years of age and upwards to be fed for 8 months at $7 a month, making the sum of $4,088, and there is the number of 37 negro children of 10 years of age and younger whose board & attention is proved to be worth $4 a month for 8 months, making the sum $1,184, the two sums amounting to $5,272. Taking off the value of their labor as estimated above and it leaves $4,972 against the plaintiffs. But to make an other calculation, for extreme fairness; - it is in proof that corn in Davidson is now worth $1.50 per bushel, - there is no proof of what it was worth last fall, but it is well known that it was worth less than $1, we will call it $1, - 2800 bushels of corn is the largest estimate of the crop that can be made, - call this $2800 and give the plaintiffs credit for it, in addition to giving them credit for their labor, a thing never heard of any where, and the plaintiffs will then have credit for $3,100, and they still fall in debt to the defendant in the sum of $2,172; and still like a set of famished leeches, they insist on taking the little remaining life blood of this unfortunate defendant. But it is insisted by the plaintiffs that there were other crops than corn raised, and they are entitled to them, - to that splendid crop of sweet & irish potatoes sworn to by Orange, and sworn to also by the Chairman of Davidson County Court, as will be remembered, and there was a crop of ground peas raised how many, whether a gallon or a bushel, no one knows, - but all these were eaten by these plaintiffs; - then there was a little hay made from meadows that it is in proof were