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Not ling since in __ County, there was an amusing run-away match. Mrs. N _ a widow had an only daughter F _ of course beautiful as all young & unmarried ladies are or as they are reported to be, was courted by Stephen J.: crossed out David C __was accepted and received as the lover by the Ladies Momma?. No difficulty whatever appeared, to prevent the anticipated union, more particularly as "they loved each other" and moreover their fortunes were equal. Time passed on Stephen was happy, he attended with the greatest diligence to his plantation, turned his old log residence into a kitchen, the former kitchen into store houses, built a frame House & furnished it appropriately for the reception of F _ when she should be his wife. A brother of the widow's unexpectedly died, & his plantation (which was only some few miles from her own) negros & became

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