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)~rster raised ail we set and made all we weex right dere on de place ‚ ‘bout five wiles north of Ridgeway.

	~	I guess Marster John had fort~y slaves. U. live in two.‘atory log house wid plank floor. Marater John die, us ‘acend. to his brother Robert and his wife )Aiatre~s Mary. I played wid her chillun. Logan was one and •Janie the ot)ier.My mar~ter an~ ~istrees was good to ns. I use t~ dr~v& de mules to de cotton gin. All I had to do was to set on de long beam and crack n~y whip every nov and then ‚ and de mules would go ‘round and ‘round. Dore was three hundred and eeventy-~six acres in dat places I ovu par1~ of it today. I b ‘longs to Good Hope Church. I sure bel ievee in de Lord ‚ and det His ~aerc ies is frow everlast ~ to sverlaetir~‘ to th~ dat fears Hifi.

	a.	‘~ember but little ‘bout de war for freedoni, ‘cept dat eo~e of de claves of ~rster wea sent to de LTout to use pick and shovel to throw up breast wrks, and things of dat nature. Wy pappy was de foremen azid stayed et home ‚ carry on whilst Marst~er Robert go.

	‚e Deed I recollects ‘bout de Yankees. They come and ask my peppy, de fore~ II~an~ ~here vas de mules end hos~es hid outZ Pappy s~y ~e don‘t know, he didnt carry them off. They find out a boy dat knowed; make hiii tell, and they went and got de mules and hosa.a. They took everything and left.

	~	Doctor Scott was our doctor. »ere was inthexn days Iota of rattlesnakes; had to be keerful of then, Then us hear lots and had Iota of chills and fever. They found de rea~edy, but they was way off ‘bout ihat make them come on yuu. $o~e ‘1cv it was de ~iasuia dat de devil bring ‘round you froir de swamp end satt le “round yo tir fac e whilst yo u ‚ and soon as he git you to snore you sniffed ii to your liver, lights and gall, then dat ~iake bile, end then you was wid de chilla a. coinin‘ every other day and de fever aU de day. Marster Doctor I{ayne done find out dat de skeeter bring de fever and de chills ‚ end