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Thomas Clark Durant correspondence with his brother, William F. Durant, regarding operation and expenses of the Monroe and Marion mines, Union County, North Carolina, 1854-1855

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and if not and you and your Brother or either of you won it as is said then I want to rent the place from you I will pay either sure rent or apart of the crop. I would prefer paying sure rent and will keep up the financing and pay one hundred dollars, $100, sure rent, [...] for the whole place that is the Agricultural Interest there is about a live horse farm in Cultivation some so or 60 acres for corn wheat and oats and I made a very good crop last year. And the prospect is very good for a corn crop this year [...] wheat was almost a failure about here oats very good though I had more [...] my average crop is about 3 or [...] bags cotton and some 300 Bushels corn and some 25 [...] wheat this is about my average crop since I have cultivated the place
 
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