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and vegetables, and quantities of our green corn, running over and trampling down our cotton. Tearing down our stables and other buildings to procure Lumber for themselves causing us great damage, to wit, not less than Two Thousand Dollars, 
2nd- we were at great expense in improving the land by putting upon it large quantities of manure, thereby enriching the land to that extent that the owner Mr. Blacklege has frequently admitted that it is in better condition than when he left it, but which was of little benefit to us the present season by reason of the protracted dry weather, -
3rd- With an ordinary yield we ought to have had, and at the lowest estimate had reason to expect at least one hundred Bales of good Cotton, but in consequence of the drouth, the attack of the worm and depredations of the Soldiers we got in all only about Sixty Bales, thereby causing great loss and embarrassment to us,-
We would further say that we have endeavored to carry on the place in an economical and husband like manner, and regardless of expense we have tried to improve the condition of the Freedmen, assisting them by giving them the privilege of cultivating as much-