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making only 43 Bales, which would not feed & cloth 200 persons, If they had got all of but I had agreed to feed & cloth furnish Medicine & Carried out the Contract in good faith & heard no complaint until the note of Hansford & Willard became due when they trump up the Case of the negroes to prevent my trustee from collecting the debts while they were active in helping him to defraud me. he shipped the cotton & corn to Galveston where he can sell & do not believe the negroes side get their way out him.for I understand he and Willard have both gone to the north where they intend to remain with their family in all the above facts I can substantiate by the evidence of the Commander of the Post & the Provost Mardhall as the Freedmans Bureau I do hope you will not suffer such swindle to go on in Your Division