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legal or moral to provide for her more than for any other pauper.  She was inherited by my daughter from her Grandfather - had never belonged to me & had always been a heavy expense to my Son in Law for he paid some planter every year to clothe & feed her & her children & long before Slavery was abolished. 

Yet the woman was a simple hearted creature and could not provide for herself & children & I could not turn her off penniless & penniless she has been at my house ever since July & I have had not only to feed & clothe & shelter them & provide her with fire wood but to submit to her pilfering & that of her children.  I am not able to support her & yet I cannot have the heart to turn her off.  And as the cause of my misfortunes needed to be increased, today another negro woman with three small children & enceinte came over from Macon to my home begging for some protection.  She also belonged once to my Son in Law & came to him in the same night & the same way & she has always been an expense to him & came back to my house from a plantation where he had placed her to be cared for until Christmas.  She came back.  I suspect if her corn mill & to be with her friends during the holidays or perhaps from some idea that the negroes have of  

Transcription Notes:
A couple of words I couldn't quite make out. Thanks for looking for them! enceinte = pregnant