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NARA 739

Macon Noxubee Co. Miss
December 16 - 1867

Major Smith

Sir

In Nov. 1866 I rented to H.B. William a tract of land estimated at 200 acres in cultivation for which he was to pay me 9 Bales of Good cotton Pack & Gin the same & pay the taxes for which I hold his written obligation

Afterwards William sublet the said land in small tract to Freed men for a portion of the crop i.e. the Freed men to be at all expense of feeding themselves furnishing team &c and to give William one fourth of the crop. William left the state about the Last of Nov. he took nothing with him neither did he leave any property behind liable to me for the rent except the cotton raised on the place to wit 16,800 lbs in the seed which he transfered to me verbally before he left.  I not knowing at the time that he intended leaving, assuring me at the time that [[strikethrough]] it [[/strikethrough]] "every lock of it " belonged to him he having paid the Freed men for their share in the way of supplies &c to make the same but this the negroes now deny but no claim was set up by them to the cotton as long as William remained

There is not, nor has there been, any property belonging to William on the place
 

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