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NARA 251 prevailed and I am forced to write accordingly - and to share the great injustice done me I will recite a few facts in support of my theory. I worked 6 hands & Edmund Maxey 5, making 11 efficient hands. We did work in fixing gin house, building 4 cabins & other work to the value of say 400$, besides fixing up the place. We made 32 bales of cotton [[strikethrough]] weighing as per the gov't weight [[/strikethrough]] 22 of which are shipped and weighed 11,717 lbs averaging 529 lbs. each - Also about 800 bushels of corn, 100$ worth of fodder, 600 bush cotton seed. The arbiters allowed Mrs Reeves her account for supplies and 10 pr ct Her claims are in all 1332$. The aggregate value of the crop is estimated as follows 32 Bales Cotton @ 60 $1920 Corn say 800 fodder 100 potato 20 Gross amt crops 2840 Mrs R claims her amt 1332 divide by 2 1518 for labor of 6 hands 731 $ out of which Edmund - according to the instruction they gave his
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