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evening going to Corn shuckings — sung out — I have whip sawed ^[5] it in this City in 1823. — got one dollar per dy — Sawed 200 feet — got from 1.50 to 200 per hundred — 2 men to saw 200 feet. The virginians — of a good order or class read the best Brittish literature of the day and Studied Philosophy — &c — Old virginia boasted then as now of her integrity — honor — valor — power to rule [or] reign — Am too sick to talk more. 70 years of age —

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