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Stanhope Nash Co. N.C.
May 25th 1867

Robt. Avent Inspt. Genl.

Sir. Your communication of the 22d is at hand, and in reply I would state a few facts and let you draw your own inferences why the case between myself and Anthony Minga is not settled. 

1st Amount of corn made by actual measurement sixty barrels and five or six barrels of rotten corn besides.

2nd Seven stacks of fodder averaging between three & four hundred lbs to the stack. About twenty five bushels of pease, all of which I have now, though I have never measured them.

About two hundred pounds of tobacco. One hundred and fifty seven pounds of cotton and about two hundred bushels of potatoes. A small calculation will show what the crop was worth when housed.

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60 barrels corn at $5 per bbl. | 300.00
5 " [[ditto for barrels]] Rotten " [[ditto for at]] 1 " " [[dittos for per bbl.]] | 5.00
2500 lbs fodder " [[ditto for at]] 1 " [[ditto for per]] hundred | 25.00
25 bushels pease at 1 " [[ditto for per]] bus. | 25.00
200 lbs tobacco at 10c | 20.00
200 bushels potatoes at 33 1/3 c | 66.66
[[tally line]]
$441.66

Now Minga's part would be ($220.83) two hundred and twenty Dolls and Eighty three cents provided he had fulfilled his contract.

Transcription Notes:
Does the writer mean to address Robert Avery?