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Permit me to return
My thanks for your prompt and kind attention
to my request. The Boy was duly and
safely received by your messenger.
I hope you will excuse the liberty I take
in again calling your attention to a subject
mentioned in my former communication.
The influx of runaway negroes to our town
is so great that to rid us of this troublesome
population it would be necessary to have an
established law that they should be taken
out of town regularly once a week.
Their depredeations on my property, both by
day and by night continue unabated until
I stand appalled to ^think where I am to attain
Additional supplies for my family.

Whilst I am solely dependent upon the
exertions of my Son, a youth of fourteen years
of age, with no other means of transportation
than a wheelbarrow to supply myself and family
with fuel my woods are filled with stout
negroe men cutting and hauling my wood to market, whilst they avoid being seen
by my son and ^think if by chance he gets in
speech of them they make excuses for not
asking for me.

I hope that this glimpse of the sad con-
-dition of things which pervades our whole
community in a greater or less degree, will
stimulate you to use every means in your
power to send off these miserably displaced
people from among us.

Trusting that the forlorn condition of my-
self and family will be a sufficient apolo-
gy for my trespassing so largely upon your
time, I know.

^{P.S. Mrs Munford will be much obliged
if Gen. Nagleé will forward the en-
closed letter.}