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Hester Street (F) being duly sworn deposes and says
I worked with Osborn Wilkerson on Mr. Freeman Walkers plantation, commenced the week before Christmas and I left him along in March because there was not enough provisions to feed all and I was a free man and said I was going to work with Mr. Walkers gang; he agreed to give me the neighborhood price, as much as any one else would give me, I have received from him ($2.50) two and a half dollars in money three pair shoes (12.50) amounting to Twelve and half dollars, two pair pants worth (11.50) Eleven & half pants & shirt $2.00 and shirts worth $2.00 - he wants me to stay with hi the year round and says he will give me as much as any body will told him I would stay if we could agree Osborn agreed to give me a third of his share when he employed me, he was to have a third of the Corn & Tobacco raised on the new land which they tended he has paid me (12 1/2) Twelve and half bushels of corn - Osborn, Green Andy & Martha all left about a month