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a share in the crops and are hiring them by giving them money wages for next year. There is abundance of labor here for all the Freedmen in this Sub-Dist.
The feeling that exists between the whites and the Freedmen is still very unfriendly but I do not think that it is any more so than it has been; the feeling on the part of th whites towards the Freedmen is very over-bearing, they seem to have no disposition to encourage or instruct them in getting along; the Freedmen cannot place any confidence in the whites whatsoever, but seem to think themselves swindled in all their dealings with them. 
There has been no provisions made by either County in this Sub-Dist. for the support or care of pauper Freemen and no signs of their ever being any made. I send a note a few days since by an old Freedman (who is turned out of house and home and will never be able to provide for himself) to one of the Trustees of the Poor of Essex County asking him to provide shelter for the old man and his family, he sent him back again saying there was no house for him and no provisions made for his class; this old man has a large family of little children his wife is no more able to provide for them than he himself. There is twelve or fifteen Freedmen in that situation to my personal

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