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to goe beyond even for thirteen dollars Per month while the average wages Offered Per month was for good farm hands 10 to, 12 Boys 8 & 6 women 8 & 10 though most of the farmer prefered giving a share of the crops one third & found or half of the whole raised but at no Price could laborers be had because as [[strikethrough]] they [[/strikethrough]] many said & as has been the too frequent case driven from their labor without Pay & in many instances threaten yet there has been a large class of fellers unwilling to work at all thus far nothing has been done towards supplying the wants of farmers the people in the City find their own help  Very Resply Yours

Jas. T. Wilson
Wm. Keeling

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