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Mon 18 The morning is clear calm beautiful cold & mudda

H M ) I wrote another letter to H. N. Watterson having wrote & sent
Watterson )
one the 9 Inst. asking him to fill my order revoking my

Watterson ) power of atto to H. Tompkins in receiving the money upon my
Tompson )
Government Claims at Washington

Martha J. ) I mailed a letter to Martha Jane Mays to day it has been
Mays )
written about the 1st Jany giving her as near as I could our

situation & every thing that I would suppose she would like

to hear
( Corn (
) George & ) George H. & Preston halled Corn to day & put in my Crib 3 loads
( Preston (
) Richd ) of Jack's wagon & 5 of Thomas' wagon Jack's bed holds 4 barrels

& Thomas' bed holds 6 barrels making 42 barrels to day this

lacks 6 barrels of paying up for the Corn they fed with in

1867 & 1868.

I got one load of Corn of Richard, Jack's wagon bed & Rich

got another.
William (
Sugar ) William got $ of Sugar 1 1/2 yds of Oil Cloth to cover my
Oil Cloth (
2 Shirts ) Bugga bed Cost $1.25 pr yd & 2 Shirts Cotton Hit costs
$1.00 (
1.10 ) .55 Cents each for himself.
1.87 (
$3.97 )
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1869 ) The morning is verry cold ground frose hard. Wind in the
Jany (
Tu 19 ) North.

Jim Beard ) Jim Beard Deputy Tax Collector was here to collect my last

years Tax, he says a law was past (7 March last) if the Tax