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BUREAU OF REFUGEES, FREEDMEN & ABANDONED LANDS
Office Agent Sub-District of Hillsboro'
Roxboro [[strikethrough]] Hillsboro [[/strikethrough]] N.C., June 4" 1868.

Jerry Walker (F) }
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Dr. Wm Merritt   }

Jerry Walker - Dr. Merritt took from him about Dec 1867. a hog, claiming it as his. -Taken by Isaiah [[Marrout??]] Dr M - said he had a lien on Tom Bass property & the hog was part of it. it had been killed about 4 days - weighed by scales about 120 lbs award the sow (mother) & this not one of the pigs- In Feb'y 1867 I covered Tom Bass some corn 1/2 bbl worth $10 a bbl in March Tom paid me by giving me a pig= This pig died in July 67 of Cholera-

John Walker (F) The pig father got from Tom Bass died after out housed in 1867 (froze to death) The hog Dr. Merritt took was ours we raised from our new hog