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brothers while working for Miss Amanda.  Miss Amanda son's Eli is an honorable & respectible man & as such I suppose he will acknowledge that he came down to Alexandria and told us that Miss Amanda would furnish us houses, fire-wood, [[strike out]] rent [[/strike out]] and a garden rent-free and would sell us bacon & corn at the old prices.  All of this she fail to do.  My wife Beckie [[strike out]] went [[/strikeout]] seeing no prospect of getting a house built at Miss Amanda's, went out three times to see her about it and to try and hurry her.  My father-in-law cut the logs for one house & helped to build them up, but the third time my wife went out to see Miss Amanda she said she could not afford to put a chimney to the house and when my wife said she was not able in her weak state of health to go into a new house without a fire, for she had no money to bye a stove, Miss Amanda said in the presence of seven witnesses that she would have to go where she could do better then,  [[strikeout]] has [[/strikeout]] for Miss Amanda said she could not lend us a stove & we not being able to bye one or do without fire, had to seek a home else where. 

I am very sorry that Miss Amanda should [[strikeout]] think [[/strikeout]] be so unreasonable as to say that my wife was the cause of our having to leave, for I think that any impartial judge must see that under the circumstances we could [[strike out]] do [[/strike out]] not do otherwise.  Since we left William Ray's wife has had to leave for want of a house also.  I am now at the mercie of an impartial judg, for as I have no written contract & Eli