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Joseph Hurdle being duly sworn deposes and says I moved Osborn family up to Walkers plantation about a week before Christmas about the middle of April we all got together to draw writings. Osborn said he was to have one half the crop raised on his half the new ground and one third of the crop on the old land that he tended, he agreed to help mow the meadow and cut the wheat, this in consideration of moving himself and family up there Osborn could not sign the writings, saying he would go on and work himself his boy Green, and Mr. Walker agreed that they should go on and work at those terms. That is to say They to receive one third the old land crop and one half of half the new land crop. Hester worked with them until about the last of March Andy Oakley worked about 2 mo or three months, Martha worked about half the season. Osborn