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scattered throughout the various plantations in the County called on the Doctor at different times separately for a settlement but were refused & in some instances intimidated by threats from taking any steps before the proper tribunal towards collection. In June of this year he sold his plantation for Ten Thousand dollars (specie) ($10.000) cash to Rufus K. Gay and in the same month he sold his growing crop of about (350) Three hundred & fifty acres of cotton & the same of Corn and all his stock and farming implements to Messr T..C Hanford & C.D. Willard who paid ($3000) Three Thousand dollars (specie) down & gave their note at sixty days for the balance due amounting to ($6165) Six Thousand one hundred & sixty five dollars (U.S. currency) executing at the same time a deed of trust on all the property purchased from Crisp as security.

I may here state that the contract for labor made this year on that plantation was, with one exception that of Grandison Vincent the blacksmith, made in the name of A.S. Crisp & was approved & filed in this Office on the 23rd day of January last & forwarded & quadruplicated to Head Quarters as per existing order.
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