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the coming year at $5.00 each per month payable monthly

that is $10.00 a month for the two. I agreed to get my

rented ) blacksmith work done there for which he agrees shall be
2 Shops )
for 1866 ) done & charged at cash prices Wm stayed at home
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I rode my big dun horse (Stringer) down to where William
Th 28th
Dew killed my Rockaway Mare. She lyes dead in the North end
Rockaway )
Mare ) of his lott not far from the lane on the North boundary line
killed )
of the land. J. W. B. Thomas told me where to find her. She
See entry )
of 26th ) appears to be shot Just behind the sholder with something like
Decr )
slugs or nales he must have been verry close to her, for they the

shot holes were all in a few inches of the same place She was

evidently shot where she fell dead, or a few feet of it She

was not shot in the Corn field as was supposed, she was out

of the field several 100 yards in the woods lott, near the

branch. William went in the Buga to Town I stayed at home
Lost key )
Smoke house) After breaking open the Smoke house doors this morning we

found the lost key. The lock broke to pieces
1865
Decr ) I went to Town this morning Give to Parham Smith $500.00
Fri 29 )
that B. W. Porter sent by me to him paid it to him in the presence
Parham Smith)
) of William B. Wilson in his office. This has been a verry cold
Recd $500.00 )
& cloudy day. I got my Compass home from Bennet who fixed the

Compass ) Needle & primed it it seems to work verry well. I have also
& Chain )
got my Jacob Staff & Chain home from Willa Websters. I have a