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during my residence with them. Capt B. was at the
time I went to write in his office about 50 years of age
inclining to corpulancy - was certainly one of the last
& altogether the laziest man I ever saw. e was an
inveterate smoker & had a great repugnance to loca-
motion. He went to the town of Winchester, every
Saturday, to "see company", except that he scarcely
ever went off the place or even on it. He had
a small but very good tract of land, & a few very
mean Negroes to cultivate his farm. They raised
plenty of corn, but he was no farmer - & did not
keep an overseer - raised but little stock. Perhaps
pork enough to supply the white family. The Negroes
(poor devils) did not get much. Mr. & Mrs. B. were
cousins. He (I think) was raised in Hanover County,
Virginia. She in Charlottesville, Albermarle County.
Her name was Moore, she was the sister of Sen Colo.
Crockett of Jessamine, & of McCalla of Lexington
Genl. John McCalla, at present (March 1848)
one of the Auditors of the Treasury of the U.S.
is her nephew. Wm. H. Moore of Talladega is
also a nephew. I never saw a man & wife so
well matched - so perfectly congenial in their
dispositions. She too was a "great smoker" and
they spent the principal part of their time in
smoking & conversation. They were perfectly con-
tented [contented] & happy - lives in an indifferent cabin
in a plain, simple manner - their diet was of
the most common kind - meat, corn bread
& milk being almost the only articles - tea & coffee
were unknown. They had seven children, two sons
and five daughters - the eldest son (James P.) is
I presume, the present Clerk of the County Court of
Clarke County. They did not educate their children
but I never could account for it, particularly as
he was himself a well educated man. He was
a first rate Greek & Latin scholar, the conse-
quence [consequence] was , when his children grew up, they labor-
ed [labored] under great disadvantages - his daughters did
not marry well. His stingyness might have

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during my residence with them. Capt B. was at the
time I went to write in his office about 50 years of age
inclining to corpulancy - was certainly one of the last
& altogether the laziest man I ever saw. e was an
inveterate smoker & had a great repugnance to loca-
motion. He went to the town of Winchester, every
Saturday, to "see company", except that he scarcely
ever went [underlined: off the place] or even [underlined: on it]. He had
a small but very good tract of land, & a few very
mean Negroes to cultivate his farm. They raised
plenty of corn, but he was no farmer - & did not
keep an overseer - raised but little stock. Perhaps
pork enough to supply the white family. The Negroes
(poor devils) did not get much. Mr. & Mrs. B. were
cousins. He (I think) was raised in [Hanever?] County,
Virginia. She in Charlottesville, Albermarle County.
Her name was Moore, she was the sister of Mrs. Colo.
Crockett of Jessamine, & [?] McCalla of Lexington
Genl. John McCalla, at present (March 1848)
one of the Auditors of the Treasury of the U.S.
is her nephew. Wm. H. Moore of Talladega is
also a nephew. I never saw a man & wife so
well matched - so perfectly congenial in their
dispositions. She too was a "great smoker" and
they spent the principal part of their time in
smoking & conversation. They were perfectly con-
tented [contented] & happy - lives in an indifferent cabin
in a plain, simple manner - their diet was of
the most common kind - meat, corn bread
& milk being almost the only articles - tea & coffee
were unknown. They had seven children, two sons
and five daughters - the eldest son (James P.) is
I presume, the present Clerk of the [underlined: County Court] of
Clarke County. They did not educate their children
but I never could account for it, particularly as
he was himself a well educated man. He was
a first rate Greek & Latin scholar, the conse-
quence [consequence] was , when his children grew up, they labor-
ed [labored] under great disadvantages - his daughters did
not marry well. His stingyness might have