Viewing page 91 of 239

This transcription has been completed. Contact us with corrections.

especially called to the statement of Aaron Shoveler, Treasurer.

It will be seen by the foregoing statement that I paid out of my own pocket for repairs on the Church, fifty-one ($51.) dollars, for which I never received one cent, forty dollars of the amount being proven by the statement of their own Treasurer, Aaron Shoveler.

The lumber refered to by Oscar Morris as being  used in my own House, was used for the special purpose of dividing the basement in to rooms for the purpose of giving temporary quarters and shelter to freed-people, who often came into Town, enroute for some other place, and were without friends or money to provide them shelter, and at no time during that winter was there less than three, and sometimes as  high as eight and ten quartered in the rooms of my own House.

With reference to the pork, and mackerel, that Morris says was consumed in my own family, I beg leave to say that he is simply mistakened.  - The dividing of my rooms in the basement, forced me to keep my own family provisions in the