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purchased the interest in said estate of one of the other legatees hence the estate is now the property of but four legatees and Mr. C. Jean owns two shares there of and a third interest in another. After the death of the father Circumatus Jean the petitioner resided on and managed the estate undivided until 1863 where he was conscripted and forced into the rebel army and his wife incarcerated in Castler [[?]]der at Richmond for alleged disloyalty to the Southern Confederacy.  At the close of the war Mr. Jean fearing the return to his home on account of the many persecutions he and his wife had been subjected to went north to remain until the county became settled. In February last he returned to Greenville [[strikethrough]] wich [[/strikethrough]] County with his family but to find a Mr. Timothy Busham in the [[?]] possession of his property 
The other legatees stated that they have never rented the property to him and in