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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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&  this year they took nearly half the arable land from me & left me without afull crop, I do not think they treated me right in so doing & they are talking of taking the whole place from me this year & moving their themselves or some of them at least; now I would like to rent it from you from year to year as long as you keep the property or will rent it to me, as I have been here so long & am getting too old to be moving about so much there is a good two horse farm open & in cultivation another place & I wrote in my other letter to you that I would rather pay sure rent than part of the crop & proposed giving you one hundred Dollars rent per annum, for it &c now please let me know forthwith if I can get it & if so an what Terms as the time for sending is an & if I do not get this place I will be compelled to look out for some other &c. The property had been pretty badly used in cutting of the timber for shingles & boards for market & [Olno?] Mager & his brother-inlaw Ansbury, have put up a steam saw mill & are sawing up the lumber an the Fox hill & some on the Marion mine tract Benjamin Howie settled on the So E. side of the marion mine & had opened out some fifty sixty acres of good land & wasted a good deal of very fine timber & pays rent to them, he says he will make five Bags cotton & 300 Bu corn this year this may be all right with you & [then?] you may know nothing about it I simply state the facts to you, that if you do not know, you may know all these facts you can assertain from disinterested persons back here if you disire - refferent Samuel Stevens, RH Howie CQ Lemmond

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& this year they took nearly half the arable land from me & left me without afull crop, I do not think they treated me right in so doing & they are talking of taking the whole place from me this year & moving their themselves or some of them at least; now I would like to rent it from you from year to year as long as you keep the property or will rent it to me, as I have been here so long & am getting too old to be moving about so much there is a good two horse farm open & in cultivation another place & I wrote in my other letter to you that I would rather pay sure rent than part of the crop & proposed giving you one hundred Dollars rent per annum, for it &c now please let me know forthwith if I can get it & if so an what Terms as the time for sending is an & if I do not get this place I will be compelled to look out for some other &c. The property had been pretty badly used in cutting of the timber for shingles & boards for market & [Olno?] Mager & his brother-inlaw Ansbury, have put up a steam saw mill & are sawing up the lumber an the Fox hill & some on the Marion mine tract Benjamin Howie settled on the So E. side of the marion mine & had opened out some fifty sixty acres of good land & wasted a good deal of very fine timber & pays rent to them, he says he will make five Bags cotton & 300 Bu corn this year this may be all right with you & [then?] you may know nothing about it I simply state the facts to you, that if you do not know, you may know all these facts you can assertain from disinterested persons back here if you disire - refferent Samuel Stevens, RH Howie CQ Lemmond