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could have done: for as the old lady appropriately remarked "I provided for my children when they were young now they must provide for me. In respect to the number of hogs, among 96 colored people she told me herself then these men 26 hogs while she has only 25 a sad discrepancy indeed, and it is only the war that  they were allowed hogs at all, and upon these conditions; Mr. Tobb at the  commencement of the war proposed to furnish each family according to size with one or two hogs[[or?]] shotes [[shoat?]]: which he would pay for, and they should rais these and from them provide meat for themselves 3 months in the year: while he supplied them with meat what what gain had the poor colored people very early the trouble and anxiety of finding food for their hogs until fatening time when they were allowed a little corn each day 2 ears, to faten their hogs an which must supply them with meat for 3 months, but he was benefited for the first year he said 2000 lbs of pork, but after the second year he ceased paying for the shotes, and she cut of [[off]] the corn allowance this year, and they seeing that she would not help them, and only sought to cast them off without any thing detirmined to make what they could for which I cannot blame them, yet she cannot directly accuse one of stating anything but a few peaches which she called for a guard to protect who when they see the condition of things refused to become her overseers.

I could not find a single woman whom she allowed a month so as to make money to buy a dress with; she allowed some of them two weeks but called upon them so often during that 

Transcription Notes:
---------- Reopened for Editing 2024-01-14 16:29:40 "shote" - "shoat" is a young pig ---------- Reopened for Editing 2024-01-14 17:40:22 detirmined = determined Compare the "d" in determined and directly, two lines below it.