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written by Thomas Tabb Esq. He knows nothing of Mr Anderson's course during the war; knows he left here in 1861 and has heard that he died in 1863. The petitioner did leave his own farm during the war, and admits that he was a tenant-at-will on the farm and in the absence of Jeff Phillips late Col. Confederate Army. Mr Phillips fully expected, up to December last, to pay the cost of dismissing libel, — had, and for some time held the money for that purpose. It was in fact told him at the time of sale, that out of his first payment ($500.00) funds sufficient to lift the libel should be taken; this in order to furnish a full and clear title, which was guaranteed to him, but has been deliberately withheld. Some months after he again raised money to remove the libel, but it was not called for. The plea of "benefit of the two helpless orphan and poverty stricken children (female)" of the said Anderson, appears wholly without foundation. Mr Anderson is, according to Mr Phillips statement, insolvent — he (the petitioner) declares that Mr Tabb so informed him. There is no prospect of their benefit from settlement of the Anderson Estate, and the granting of Mr Phillips'

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