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we all worked together last year his hands and my family I had three no. 1 hands I was to get the fith [[fifth]]of the crop we all made 85 bales weighing 500, 450, 480, 490, fifty four loads of corn at 50 barrels to the load fifteen loads of fodder and my hands were to draw the fith [[fifth]] and besides I was the Blacksmith for the whole plantation that was for last year 1866 he promised me if I would stay with him this year 1866 he would pay me up the last cent and he has not paid me one cent before witnesses and he with [[/strikethrough]]  has not come up to anything that he promised me

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