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Answer to second question, continued.
Than a fortnight. A whitewoman was living in the house whilst [[strikethrough]] after [[/strikethrough]] Polly was away. I didn't know any thing about the whitewoman, only I saw her there. She lived there one or two months. Polly told me her mother had the renting of the house out. I mean the whitewoman lived there till about a fortnight before Polly moved back.
3rd Question, by Same. In the conversation with Polly, to which you have referred before, did she or not state to you that she had no control over the house; & had no right to move back there, without the permission of Jos. M. Carrington?
Ans. She told me it was her house. She only told me, it was her house, & never told me any thing about getting leave to go back to it. 

1. Question, by Plff's counsel. Had Polly Fortune been living at the place referred to by you, before the time you helped to move her wood there? Ifso, how long, & why did she move away [[strikethrough]] from there [[/strikethrough]]; & how long was she absent from there?
Ans. Yes, she lived there before; but the house was moved. It was moved back off the Rail Road to where it is now. The Rail Road took [[strikethrough]] some [[/strikethrough]] nearly all the ground the house stood on. She had lived there several years. I think she had several children while she was living there. I think she was out of the house, nearly a year; perhaps more than a year. 
2. Question, by the same. Do you know who built the house? Do you know whether [[strikethrough]] she [[/strikethrough]] Polly ever paid any rent to any body for the house?
Ans. I know Polly had it built. Never heard her say she paid any rent. She told me she paid twenty four dollars for the ground, to her mother. She did n't say she had paid all.
3rd. Question, by same. How did Polly get possession again of her house?
Ans. As she was coming up the rail Road, she saw the