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My son says, you intimated, "you did not compel me to let the Dobsons, remain on this place. This, he must be mistaken about, because you, & several others who were present, know that you said, "the execution sh'd not issue, if I get it". You prejudged the matter, by saying "the Dobsons must not leave the place, as they had put out a crop of corn". You did not know, then as well as you do [[strikethrough]] k [[/strikethrough]] now, what sort of people they were, or you w'd not have gone so far in their behalf. You even tried to make arrangement for part of the family, to live in Warrenton, leaving the laboring part, in the neighbourhood to cultivate the corn. The civil magistrates will not touch your award, & throw me back on you, and I beg you to come at once, & attend to it: Come to Gainsvile, where you can get a horse, any