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The Yankeya left I left home after breakfast and learned between here & Town the Fedrels had all left which turned out to be true They took all the negroes they had pressed to Work on the Fortifications & every one else Male & female they could gather all round and about Tom & kept taking them as far as could be heard of across the river a verry greate No. went, my boys

Anthony
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was taken sorely agt there will & carried off contrary to there pledge of honour to do so

Capt Ninon the provost introduced me to Capt Donly the Manager of the negroes telling him who I was & they both pledging them selves that my blacks should not be carrid away from Columbia This took place on Thursday 8th Inst but on Saturday afterwards they were fourced off

Sun 11th Oct) News came this morning that the Fedrels had returned back to Columbia verry early this morning had caught some 15 or 20 of the Souterners W Gallaway - Vaught, Anderson, Jo Martin & others Many Citizens about Columbia, Willey J. Ryatt, Lyttle, Flanegan & others went off -Voluntarily- with the Fedrels -Gov- Adkinson was with many papers caught (Conscript agt &c)

Mon 12th I gathered all the apples that has been left on the trees about 5 or 6 bushes
The limber twig all out of the new orchard