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get up when down, and as for months wholly worthless to your petitioner.

Your petitioner further asserts & can prove, that a better or at least as good a horse was left with the Lawsons as the one taken from them, and that as soon as the horse was taken from your petitioner the Lawsons took both the horse which had been left by the Federal Army at their horse in lieu of the one taken from them, & the one which was taken by them from your petitioner out of this county & sole them.  Your petitioner asks if it is just & fair, that they should under the circumstances take from him, the horse left in the place of the one taken from him, in North Carolina, & they still retain & hold the one left in lieu of the same horse which the Lawsons have taken from him.  He asks that you would make such order in the premises as Justice demands, and Equity require, together with such remuneration as is due him under the circumstances, (as he was forced to abandon his crop & hire another man to take it.  Your petitioner is still without any horse, and without the means of purchasing one, as he is a very poor man with wife children & family to support.  The horse left with your petitioner is now in the possession of one Isaac C. Adams, and your petitioner, if his feelings & wishes are to be consulted, would prefer the restoration of his property, if he has any claim to the horse left by the Federal Army in the place of the one taken from him  Your petitioner urges that his horse or the value thereof ought to be restored to him for the further consideration that he done nothing to bring about the collision between the two sections North and South, that he was for the union as it existed under the Constitution, and this he an verify by his neighbors - all of which is respectfully submitted.
Jacob Shelton.

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