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The National Committee has deliberated the subject matter of the written order and upon a full investigation, it appears from the Will of Young Wolf, Deceased, that Mr Charles R. Hick, Rattling gourd & The Hair, were chosen as Executors, and that house & farm were left to his only son Dennis and that the Executors thought best to let Jane Wolf, the widow of the Deceased, occupy the house and farm and manage and conduct the same according to her own discretion: And further if appears that the said Janney Wolf did manage and conduct the place with economy & propriety & in consequence thereby has accumulated considerable money, by keeping a house of entertainment for handlers, which enabled her to purchase some negros; and also that she has raised her children with that maternal regard which is peculiar to the trait of a fond mother, and that the two oldest daughters being of age and married and settled off to themselves; and that the said Janney Wolf put into the hands of each of those daughters a negro woman which she had bought with money accumulated as before stated, and intended making a right of those negro women to them, after getting some of their increase for the benefit of her two youngest children, which are not yet of age and the two eldest daughters being delirious to get their mother to make a transfer of bill of sale, for those women, so as to enhance all their increase; and the mother’s refusing to do so having produced a misunderstanding and controversy between the mother and two daughters which has led to this order; The National Committee are of opinion that justice forbids coercion on the mother to transfer bills of sale for those negros, contrary to her own free will and consent: Therefore it is decreed that the order herein be dismantled: By order of the National Committee John Ross, President

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