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from which we start being in fact within the Georgia lines. We are seven in number - five of us requiring full tickets and two of my children requiring half tickets - and our route through Georgia is via Macon, Atlanta & Augusta

You would do me a very great favor by letting me have our papers as soon as convenient - It is very important to me to return to Charleston immediately & make arrangements for working my lands before the New Year sets in - Moreover the Small Pox has broken out all around me & I am anxious to remove my children as soon as practicable from this infected neighborhood. Added to this I am here without monied resources & in a land of strangers -

Hoping you will excuse my urgency & begging you will do me the kindness 

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