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The negroes 46 in number at	$40,000~
" Land at what it cost	20,900
" flock of mules, cattle, hogs &	25,000
Provisions, Corn, fodder &
farming utensils	[faded 250]
	$65,000

will be due Miss Huitons at the end of the year
say between 4 & 5 thousand Dollars, unless the Crop
should be unusually good this year, & in that
case the balance will be still more seduced.
I think it will be entirley safe to take 60, 000 Dollars
as a surplus to divide, if no other losses occur
during the presnt year - Then say you take

The lands at what it cost	20,900
Mules, Stock, provisions etc.	4,000
Cashor negroes for balance	5,100
	$30,000

to be accurate it shows however something
near as to what it may be before the property
is cold. I think it would be advisable for
you to buy that portion of the Negroes who have
your women for wives, thre are six men situated
in that way and one of lyour men has a wife with
four children belonging to us jointly, they are mostly
young and the women are now having children
regularly & in a few years you wold be well stocked