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at place known as Beals, he continued to farm in a small way,(the negroe leaving him soon after he got there) and also to exercise as far as he was able a supervisor and management over that portion of the Estate known as Town & Quarters & Semples, in this capacity he would from time to time make remittances to Dr Waller for articles sold, such as Stock, Crops &c whenever he had it in his power to do so, and he has continued to do this up to the present time. Her father says [[Strikethrough]] that when  he was not [[/Strikethrough]] that Dr Waller had never resided, properly speaking, on any of his Farms, as his dwelling house was within the Corporate limits of the city of Williamsburg, but has always managed the same by Agents or Managers. That Dr Waller is an old man as he hears, and believes, seventy-four years of age. That he had been very infirm for several years before the war, both from age & disease. That he has been confined for several years, before the war, and now to the house he was in in the habit of riding from time to time over his farms in a close, carriage, into and out of which he was always assisted by others, & and that he was altogether unable, from his infirm condition, Either to Enter or alight?, from this carriage alone and unaided. That for several years past one of his married daughters has resided with him, for the purpose of comforting him and administering to his wants. He further states that Dr Waller has been in the constant habit of spending a portion of each year away from Williamsburg, and this for very many years, at first in the neighborhood of Fredericksburg Va and afterwards in Lynchburg Va. where two of his married daughters resided. That he left Williamsburg in the latter part of May 1861, and in the month of March 1862, Dr Waller left at this time in 1862, partly for reasons before mentioned, and partly because his daughter was forced away by the ill-health of her husband, and the Doctor could not have remained in any sort of comfort without her. That he returned to Williamsburg in the month of November 1861, and did not return in 1862, as he supposes, because of the occupation of this place by the Federal Army. He states also that when Dr Waller left Williamsburg in 1862 he left all his horses, cattle, hogs & sheep, the greater number of his Servants, with a large Supply of food for everything, and that his farming operations, were Conducted as they always had been, as long as the treatment of

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