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Black Rock N.C
May 20th 1868

Genl A Rutherford

Sir- In Jany. 1867 I (acting as agent for my mother a widow lady) rented to Samuel Larkins, a person of color three fields & a No. of Turpt. boxes for three hundred dollars to be paid Quarterly. On acct. of bad seasons and worse cultivation he failed to meet his payments and I having confidence in him and thinking it to the interest of both parties did not distraw or use the remedy to which I was thus entitled by law but waited patently on him allowing him to gather and retain his crop thinking he would pay me sooner having provision for his family in which I was

Transcription Notes:
Turpt. = Turpentine - boxes were cut into the turpentine trees to harvest the sap therefrom General A. Rutherford may be Allan D. Rutherford (1839-1900) of Maryland. Rutherford attained the full rank of colonel, and was brevetted brigadier-general.