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cents a bushel, I think, I have forgotten exactly the price he paid. I then stopped the sale and did not sell enough at auction to pay Mr. Pikes claim, because they were sold so low & were being being sacrified[?]. I afterwards retailed all that were left, after the auction, for one dollar & from that price to one dollar & twenty five cents a bushel. I picked and sorted all the potatoes, twice[?] [?] to the auction sale. After the sale Mr. Smith gave me five dollars to pick over one hundred bushels for him. I did so & put them in barrels. & when I delivered them to him they were all sound and in good order. I am well acquainted with the different qualities of potatoes & have never seen so good a lot of seed potatoes in Calais as the lot I then had for sale & from which those sold to Mr. smith were selected.

Hugh Slater

Washington [?] June 10th 1857. Personally appeared Hugh Slater and made oath to the truth of the above affidavit by him subscribed, before me.

Chs. R. Whidden Justice of the Peace