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Trust & carried out & executed the same but for the
difficulty about the land which is mentioned in said Bill -
the account of which therein is hereby admitted. the
puchaser of said land promising to reconvey it but failed to
do so. This Respondent denies that said Richard B
Harrison ever received said Trust property into his
possession and also denies that he has received the rents
and profits or products of the labor & services of the same
& converted or disposed of the same to his own use.

Respondent admits that the said Harrison has not made
sale of the said Trust property, and that said Harrison
has not, out of said effects, paid any of the creditors
of Respondent - for the reason that he has never had any
of Respondents effects to dispose of in that or any other
way. Respondent utterly denies that said
Harrison has fraudulently or otherwise placed said
Slaves on one of his (Harrisons) plantations, or that
Harrison is working or fraudulently disposing of said
Slaves, among Slaves of his own or that he is
fraudulently disposing and converting the labor of said
Slaves to his (the said Harrison) own use & benefit,
but on the contrary Respondent says that the said
Defendant Harrison has permitted this Respondent
to have the use of One of his plantations when
the said negroes are under the sole charge and
control of this Respondent himself who now receives
and always has received the produce of their labour
& the crops made, over which the said Harrison never
has had any control or derived any benefit or
profit from the same, and all of which crops have
been and now an subject to the payment of this
Respondents debts & contracts.

This Respondent knowing nothing about what
the said Harrison may have said to the creditors
of this Respondent about the payment of their debt
as stated in said Bill but that the said Harrison
in his conduct to this Respondent has never
manifested the slightest disposition to dispose of the
said Trust property in any way except to pay
the just debts of this Respondent that he knows
of nothing that he has done to prevent it that he
is now willing to have the same sold & applied to
the same & would, as he believes long since have acted
& sold the same but for the difficulty in respect to the