Viewing page 37 of 344

This transcription has been completed. Contact us with corrections.

July 26th 1867
Clinton N.C.

Capt Rutherford

Sir having received an order from you to pay Smith Mobley his wages I wish to give you the nature of the case and the position I stand Mobley having caught a hog in Coharie not marked as I have been told carried the hog home and makes it in his own mark. M.J. Faison proves the hog and brings Mobley to trial Mobley being found guilty agrees to pay M.J. Faison sixty dollars rather than let it go through the court of law

Mobley comes to me at home to assign a note to M.J. Faison for sixty dollars at the same time Mobley was to me for six months at ten dollars per month and I was to pay his hire upon that note, made to M.J. Faison I have this objection to paying Mobley, M.J. Faison still hold the note against me and expects me to pay the note his note. M.J. Faison could lay away and bring against me twenty years from from now when I might have no military protection I think sir it very hard for have to pay this debt and the note still against me
I am sir your
Ob. Servt
Minson McLamb