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security, this loan he could not have made upon the fourth of the property, the sd Johnson, then in possession of in as much as he and his brother George had gone [to?] [court?] in Nov. 1822 and took the Oath of [illegible] Debtors, then was the Record and William Richards and all the other Creditors did know [claims/] your respondent the sd. Benjamin [Reedy?] positively denies having ever given to either of his sons John and George any slave or slaves or any personal property whatever, except a horse or two, to each and perhaps a feather bed and