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is a task I should be unwilling to perform
for twice that compensation was it not for the
purpose of effecting this division - For the short
period I am absent from business at home I have
to pay Mr. de Ger $100 per annum. And besides
the labor and time occupied in attending to this
business my health and life is perilled every time
I make a trip here. I have been fortunate thus far
and I have cause to be thankful to an allwise
Providence for the protection I have had during
the Series of years I have travelled over the same
route - It was but a few days after I passed when
the dreadful accident occurred in the Columbus
and Macon Road, destroying so many lives -
who knows but such a fate may await me.
These are considerations of vital importance to me,
whilst they it does not affect those out of the reach
of danger.

If you should not accept the arrange
-ment proposed above, I then propose to sell
the land and negroes together, there are par
-ties here ready & willing to buy whenever a
price is named, and I am of the opinion I
could effect a more advantageous sale in that way,
The largest part of my means are [invested?] here &
it is a matter of some importance to me to effect
a sale whilst the property is at a high value -