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relation to a boy (Aaron) that was the property of my wife. He was raised in the house and always treated as one of the white children. Myself and wife came to Texas in 61, and brought the boy refered with us. The balance of our servants we left in Va. Aaron was brought because he was an orphan and my wife, (now deceased) feared he might be badly treated. During Christmas I was sick in bed fifteen miles from Crockett where the boy was employed grinding bark at a tanyard and as I did not go in he was [[strikethrough]] employed [[/strikethrough]] induced to believe that I would take no farther notice of him and was contracted with for a mere trifle. In this as in

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