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as Beals, where the Enclosures being then in good order and condition, he might secure and keep safely the Stock of Horses, Cattle, Hogs & Sheep, which could no longer be Kept at Semples & Town Quarter, owing to the total destruction of the Enclosure on those Tracts, as above detailed. That at this time he removed  to Beals, that place and another adjoining, and known as Christians, was under the management and Control of Mr. Charles Bloxton, son of Mr. Robert Bloxton, who had been the Manager & Agent of Dr. Waller, living on Beals and Entrusted with the management of that Tract, and a smaller one adjoining and known as Christians, for many years before the War. That Mr. Robert Bloxton has left some months before for the purpose of Superintending and directing the Negroes, which as before described, with the reasons therefor had been removed to the upper Country. That both Mr. Bloxton and himself had been Agents & Managers of the Estate of Dr. Waller, the former for Eighteen or twenty years, & the latter for some twenty five or thirty years; and that Mr. Charles Bloxton had been raised upon, has assisted his Father in the cultivation & management of that portion of Dr. Waller's Estate above described. That both the Messrs Bloxton & himself were well known and accredited Agents and Managers of this Estate in this - Section of Country, & not Employed at the time Dr. Waller left for the upper Country. The father says that he remained at the place known as Beals for two & a half years, superintending & managing the same, as well as he could, and also supervising & protecting as well as was in his power, the whole of Dr. Waller's Estate, having taken the Oath of Allegiance a short time after the occupation of Williamsburg by the Federal Forces. At this time he was ordered by the Officer in Command at Williamsburg to remove within his Lines, which had been Extended so as to include the Tracts known as Town-Quarter & Semples and to shut that known as Beals & Christians, his Pickets being posted along their Small Creek, which alone prevented the Estate of Dr. Waller from being one continuous body of land. That he would then have returned to place known as Semples, both the dwelling of farm houses were all destroyed, the farming utensils abstracted, & the Negroes all free & unwilling to work for him. That he was, therefore, compelled to Secure a house in Williamsburg, That during the time he was living at