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Negro Jim the petitioner about the house or farm of
said Patterson -- And further this Deponent saith not
that this Deponent doth not know the exact time that Robert
Fleming resided in Pennsylvannia or when the Deponent saw
negroe Jim at work at the said Tan House, and this
Deponent cannot say but that it might be before
the year 1783. --

That this Deponent doth not know that the said
Patterson sold the said negroe to Fleming, except from
what the said Patterson himself told him, and
that this conversation took place, after the said sale
if the sale ever took place --

5^th. August 1806.
Sworn to in open Court

Test. W^m Ritchie Clerk

John Scott's Depo

-- Jim -- }
--- vs --- } Dpn
Curren }

This Depo: is admitted as Evidence except so far
as it contains inadmissable testimony -- the part objected
is scored --

A. Shaaft