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The hands work better and are
not so insolent and are more
obedient than before the
visit from Capt. Freeland
though he did not go to them as
they were back in the bend at
[?] cutting wheet and much
wheet would be run over and
lost to get to them I doubt not it
was best not to go to them as what
was said at [Steyville?] was carried
to them & all others & they not [?]
will have a good effect at least
for the present and do hope by
the fall at lest you can rid
yourself of a large lot of trublesome
ones as there can be no living
in a neighborhood with such
a set of people I will do all I
can to save what I can and make
the most of what is left. Please
make up in your mind what you will pay the negros
in crops as I would like to get out the
wheet soon clean up & put yours in the [hide?]
dont want theirs to go there

S. [Pife?]