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house, with colonade and kitchen and well were built; the Mill was thoroughly repaired so also, the negro-quarters; a new carriage house and corn stacks were built; new enclosures were built for the yard and garden and the farm fencing was thoroughly repaired and reviewed. These buildings and repairs added to the original price for the land made the land cost Parker and myself from $25000 to $27000. I was previously indebted to Parker, and he paid for a considerable portion of the expense of the new buildings and repairs. How the accounts between him and myself stand I am now unable to say, further than to declare and state as I do, that he as bona fide paid fully enough to entitle him to one half of the land, subject as the other half is to the widow's dower. 

5. The statement No. 5 is, therefore, not correct. When I paid John C. Wise, $12000 out of my own funds, Parker thereby, being a joint purchaser, became indebted to me in the sum of $6000 on account of that payment by me for him and myself jointly. His advances afterwards for buildings and his sett-offs for previous debts due by me to him, and for subsequent