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besides my sons labour worked day in and out as a slave and is done all of the sewing for a large family and would ofin use a large [?] of flax or hemph every year on the [?] wheel for we wove those then we could not well help over ourselves [[strikethrough]] He [[/strikethrough]] he had all them with the exception of [[strikethrough]] believe [[/strikethrough]] nearly three hundred dollars in bonds beneath the interest the war came on my treatment grew worse all of my children was in the north but this affected one and one daughter he and in fact all of his family was very sech [?] strong [?] so much for the sech he thought to get rich he had a good start by me and what the rest of my children ought to have had he went to taking up deserters at thirty dollars a peace he watched all them by roads and would arrest as many as ten at a time and would go to [?] too on [[?]] times a weak B F Harlen at that time 

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