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[?] to have their plantations. For | [?] to have their plantations. For | ||
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+ | miserable deserters threw away | ||
+ | and banded [?] together and went | ||
+ | about the country robbing and breaking | ||
+ | into peoples homes. We did not have |
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[Blenheim?] May 14th
Your most welcome letter of the 28th darling Nina, enclosing Fath- ers and Mothers notes arrived yesterday how I cant - [?] you. It was sent to me from a free negroes house near here but however it came it was most welcome. It made me at first ex- ceedingly uneasy about my dar ling Mother, but I read the [pg?] what she said about herself and she seems to think there is no cause for my [uneasiness?] so I have determined not to allow myself to be so, but you must write as often and as soon as you can so as to let me hear. I have made various efforts to get letters to some of you since the fall of Rich mond but doubt whether any of them have reached you. People in this
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part of the country have been having so much trouble with their [ser?] vants that gentlemen do not [?] [?] to have their plantations. For a while they were very dangerous. They picked up the [?] which our miserable deserters threw away and banded [?] together and went about the country robbing and breaking into peoples homes. We did not have