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State of North Carolina Supreme Court June Term AD 1831
William Harrison's executor and others vs.
William H Battle Trustee
This cause coming on to be heard upon the formentioned order and the Report of the Clerk to the present term, and no exception being filed thereto. The Court doth confirm the said Report of the Clerk to the Court doth confirm the said Report and it appearing therefrom that the whole of the funds in the hands of William H Battle Trustee with interest up to the 10 August 1831 amounts to $5694.20. It is ordered by the Court that the said Trustee be allowed to retain the sum of $144.60 for his commission & other cost and charges leg him incurred in executing the trust - and that he satisfy and pay to the clerk & master of Franklin the sum of $23.43 cents, his costs in this suit allowed - and to the Clerk of this Court the sum of $58.15 for his costs and allowances for the reports filed in this cause and it is further ordered and decreed that the said Trustee pay to Jones Cooke executor of William Harrison the sum of $1657.81, to Joseph William [?] the sum of $278.63, to P C Dunner to the use of Williams Murray the sum of $148.76, to Russell & Freeman the sum of $2207.89 - to Henry Y [?] the sum of $767.00 and that the balance of the fund viz $397.93 be applied in part satisfaction of the execution of Hall and Nall
Certified by John L Henderson Clerk of Supreme Court
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Bachelor's Hall August 9th 1831
Dear sister
I have just finished reading your last letter for the tenth time and as it is [underscore] my [/underscore] motto [insertion] to [/insertion] "return good for evil" I can not for my life consent to punish you by compelling you to undergo the torments of "hope defered" 'Tis, indeed, a cruel revenge you have taken for my "long silence" - one, entirely inconsistent with your usual benevolence - Is it not strange that [underscore] I [/underscore] should be singled out as an object of vingeance by one whose province it has hitherto been to dispense favours and happiness to all who have had the good fortune to come within the range of her benevolence? But in your thirst for revenge you forgot the pleasures of anticipation, and the intense delight of enjoyment after suffering the horrors of suspense. - so you see you have not as much cause for self-graulation as you might suppose - But do not again inflict such [underscore] pleasure & delight [/underscore] upon one who feels but too desolate and friendless already, - let chastisement come from a hand less dear to me. -- Please kiss little Sue for me before we go any farther and then we'll proceed -- I have nothing of my own to kiss except a horse - I must therefore kiss the [underscore] property [/underscore] of other people. Speaking of kissing reminds me of a wedding to which I am invited on Thursday evening next All the world ( a space four inches square) is to be there. I, too, shall go - but the only being on earth whose presence could impart joy even in the solitude of a desert, will not accompany me, In all the vast assembly there will not be one being whose heart shall beat in unison with my own - I shall therefore be [illegible] and desolate when all else is gayety and reverlry - but appearances must be kept up at the expense of inclination - 'tis so in N. C. and we, of Florida, are not wiser than other people. Would you believe it, I have serious notions of joining the dance on the reception!! Dopy dances with great eclat - are not my heels as light as his! or are all the excellences of some
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