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clearing then my party was the strongest. we worked all through the season until the crop was ended and tobacco & corn in the barns, one of my men worked for Mr. Bingham part of the time and turned in meat and provisions for the others to live on-
Of the Tobacco crop we cut (500) five hundred sticks at the first cutting and (850) eight hundred and fifty sticks at the second cutting, this was on the new land, on the old land at the first cutting we got (337) three hundred and thirst seven sticks, at the next (300) three hundred sticks0 This last according to Hesters Statement. I did not count it. my half was put into the barn by itself and I expected to get it when it came selling time. I was to have one third of the corn tended by my party. There was (14) fourteen wagon loads raised on my part of the land, it would shuck out about (4) barrels to the wagon load, my third was put by itself in a crib and Mr. Walkers two thirds put by itself in another crib. I have never received but one and one half bushels of shelled corn