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the property and reinvest the proceeds subject to the trusts contained in the deed from Alcocke. I have occupied the property until now, but believing the interest of myself and children would be promoted by a change of the investment, I advertised the property for sale on the 26th of this month. On yesterday a notice was served on me [[strikethrough]] yesterday [[/strikethrough]] from Lt Chase forbidding me to make sale of the property upon the ground that Peter Simpson a free-negro had some time since purchased of my husband Lenard Bowman a House & lot in this place, for which he had paid the purchase money, but had not received a deed and that said Bowman was not prepared to make a deed at this time. I believe my husband did sell to Peter Simpson a House & Lot, but I had nothing to do with the sale was not a party to the contract and am in no wise responsible for it. Peter Simpson knew at the time he purchased, that Mr Bowman could not then give him a deed. In the contract of sale he stipulated that the deed should be made, upon the payment of the purchase money. He was not bound to pay the money until the deed was made. When therefore he paid his money, before the deed was