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in part & likewise a portion of the fall either in Fredericksburg or its vicinity, or in Lynchburg for a long period of time say for the last Thirty years or more - That the reasons assigned by Wilkins for Dr. Waller's leaving his home here in 1861 & 1862 are the true reasons and the cause of his inability to return in 1862 is correctly stated in said deposition - That being in almost daily intercourse with Dr Waller or some member of his family he is enabled to depose with certainty that when the Doctor left his home here for Lynchburg, mainly through the persuasions of his children, arguing that such removal was to promote his comfort it was no part of his intention permanently to remain much less to abandon his property in this cit & vicintiy -  Given under my hand this 29 July Eighteen hundred & sixty five (1865)-
Richard, M, Bucktrout clerk
and ex officio J, P,