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[[stamp]] THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF THE UNITED STATES [[/stamp]]

Eatonton  Decr 1st 1865 - 

My dear Sir

Please attend to the following statement and the suggestions which I offer for your consideration.

I am a Lawyer by profession with a very large family of my own.  I live in the country, - For four years & more my professional income has been measurably cut off - & since the Peace there has been very little business in the rural districts of the State and when the Courts resume business I see no very good prospects ahead of professional means in the country - 

I had a very comfortable property until slavery was abolished.  My property was almost entirely in slaves, whom I was hiring out until I could get a suitable plantation, having sold the plantation which I once owned with the view of getting a better place.  My former slaves are scattered to the winds  But this summer a negro woman belonging to my son in Law with three children came to my house from the place where my son in Law had placed her & where she had been put to be taken care of at his expense & quartered herself upon me.  my son in Law being a citizen of Macon - I was under no obligation