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Thomas Green George Jim Lamar & is all at work on Thomas
(
Old ( house & Caleb making shingles ) My old read game cock has been
game Cock ) (
Killed, ( fighting with several others it seemed he acted harshly
too game )
following others to there own range & fighting all round he

got his eyes nearly put out & we thought it best to kill him
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1868 ) The morning is clear & calm Cousin Joseph Brown Porter son
May (
Tu 19 ) of Cousin Elias H Porter spent the night with us last night

Josep ) We were verry agreebly entertained in talking over old Matters
B. Porter )
& the whereabouts of our connections generally It was quite

a treat to me he is quite an intelligent young man he left

this morning went back to Town Plim & Charley is replanting
Replanting )
Cotton ) Cotton.
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Wed 20 The morning is clear and calm Plim & Charley is replanting

Replanting ) Cotton. It is verry much missing. I fear I will have to plow
Cotton )
it up.

A man came up to the house verry early long beard & could not

talk to be well understood Said he was from Italy looked to

be 45 or 50 years old Said he wanted some bread and coffee

Ittaly ) I told Puss to give him some bread & meet she took it to him
Mad )
I told him he aught to go to work & pay that way for his pro-

visions, he would not have the meet & bread got mad & went off

after it was offered to him I insisted upon his taking it he

would not have it but went off a West direction He was a bad

looking Chap the dogs tryed to bite him Went off verry mad.
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