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Wilmington & Weldon Rail Road Company
Office Chief Engineer and General Superintendent
Wilmington, NC Decr 26th 1867

Col. Rutherford

Dr Sir
I am the Executor of Tinsley Ashe and by the laws of N.C. I am allowed a certain length of time to settle up the business of the estate which I assure you is very much complicated. So far I have declined paying any claims until I get legal advice from the fact most of his goods have been sold on time & I have no money to share of my own to advance for his debts. I find a general disposition among all classes to defraud the estate (black as well as whites.) Many are presenting bills which I firmly