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BUREAU OF REFUGEES, FREEDMEN & ABANDONED LANDS,
Office Agent Sub-District of Hillsboro',
Hillsboro, N. C., ___ 1868.

Defence

J.D. Wilkerson, Esq - Spring of 1865. Dr Merritt told me he had sold Tom a horse & that Tom has not paid all the debt, that Tom proposed to give certain property as security. Tom was present. It was agreed by both that I was to write a Bill of sale. I did not make it

On reflection I think it was in 1866 that this conversation was had.

This was (according to my recolection to be a bona fide trade =

Sam B. Smit.

In April 1867, I saw Jerry at his hog pen, he appear to have just put in a shoat about a year old = he said he had bo't it from Sam Bass.

He told me not to say any thing about it.

Transcription Notes:
shoat. n. a young, weaned pig