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poisened, but of this I cannot say. The day before he left Columbia on the fatal visit I rode out to west Columbia with him to attend divine service and on the way he wished that should he die here, his remains might be conveyed to his home in Canada.  I mention this to you as one of his latest wishes,  I also promised a Freedman, named Dick upon whom an assault had been committed by a planter named "Westall" the papers and proof are somewhere in the office in Columbus and as his case comes off the first Monday in Nov'r I believe for justice sake that he ought to be defended, his is himself to poor