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Hamilton when I went for the money first what Bro Watts had said to me He remarked in reply that Mr Watts was then getting some two thousand dollars of unclear and supposed that he probably designed a part of it to release those premises? and that I could have what he had spoken for, for me. I got the money & gave mortgage on the premises. Some months after this I was at Portland and learning how facts had, in reference to such unclear matters, put a new aspect upon things I went to Bro Watts and proposed to him take the property back and give me the notes & what I had paid him beside, six hundred & thirty dollars my allowing him whatever was right for the few months rent. This he declined doing, as the property had perhaps declined in value. I then proposed to leave it to any two or three Brethren to say how much it had decreased in value.This proposition he also declined & manifested a straight out disposition to be, as I