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& contained respecting the buying of execution upon
said land the sale & purchase of the same by said
Sheriff & concerns in the prayer that said sale may be
set aside.

Respondent denies that he knew of the judgment
& execution which was levied upon said lands, he
denies that previous to said sale of said lands or at
anytime before of afterwards he had in his power
& custody all the personal property of said Meyer
under or by virtue of said deed of trust & overs
that he knew nothing of the judgment execution
or sale of said lands under the same until
several months after the sale & conswquently could not
have prevented it. This respondent is an aged and
infirm old man & at the time of the sale of said
lands for a long period before he was scarely
able to get about from sickness & infirmity & could
know nothing of any of these secret transactions of
the Sheriff. Respondent utterly denies that he
has combined or confederated with said Meyer
or has aided or assisted him in delaying or
hindering the Complainants from the recovery or
collection of any part of their debts.

And this respondent proceeding to answer the
interrogatory part of said bill saith that he does not
fully know who are creditors of said Meyer other
than those mentioned in said bill except this
respondent himself to whom said Meyer is indebted
in the sum of $2500 or thereabouts as above
forth. But respondent is informed & believes
that Walker Mundy, Dr Hall & the brothers-
in law of said Meyer (whose name
respondent cannot recount) are creditors of said
Meyers but as to the amounts respondent has no
knowledge information or belief.

Respondent states that at the time of the
execution of said Deed there were sundry executions
in the hands of the Sheriff against said Maeyer
by virtue of which there of the negroes mentioned
in said deed of trust were men sold by the Sheriff.
Two other (men) were sold under a mortgage
to one Grun Riviz executed before the deed
of trust.

This respondent [1 word illegible] to so much of said bill