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Made the charge against these three of Larceny; which Colonel Philps investigated and it so incensed them against me that my life & property were alike endangered by it I was shot at as often as 3 times in one day all the small animals and Furniture of my house broken up and destroyed or otherwise carried away = from false representations & misstatements I was apprehended by order of Genl. Butler who gave me a military tryal by Court at Fortress Monroe - he gave me a discharge and a [[left margin]] X This paper was lost with a coat, stolen by an half breed Indian on the Pamunkey river near Indian Town. [[/left margin]] Pass Port to pass & Repass the lines to & from my dwelling and offered me a guard for the protection of my house etc. but it had been already so desecrated and the furniture [[strikethrough]] all [[/strikethrough]] destroyed & all my Servants having left me so that I had no one to cook me a meals victuals; superadded to this the insecurity of my life from incensed soldiering I went into the interior as I before stated to my wife who becoming more & more ill from nervousness I determined to send her to the County of Gloucester to her friends
& relatives there, I remained leading a precarious and uncertain existence sometimes in one place & then in another for I had left

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