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to which he said (I think) in these precise words, "Employ some colored men to take them down, and sell enough of the lumber to pay the expense, and make no explanations to any body". And in accordance with his orders (although given verbally) I sold to Robert I Bickle sixteen sills, or rather sleepers, at sixty cents each, and to Edward Johnson three hundred and fifty feet at $1.50 per hundred, and to James Patterson I sold a small lot for which I think I received one dollar and seventy cts, am positive that it did not amount to two dollars.

It is impossible for me to tell how much I paid out to the men I employed as the memoranda of it has long since been destroyed, but of this fact I am willing to make oath, (as I am of all the rest) that I never received full payment of all that I paid out.

As there were no means of hauling this lumber, and I often wanted a wagon for such jobs, and had been informed by Major How that he had made application for one which was refused, I went and bought out of my own private funds, a two Horse spring wagon for which I paid

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