Dated Nov. 13, 1771. Daniel Rolf testified that in 1769 he was at the shop in Danvers where Casar worked and Casar said his master had "let him have money to buy skins with" but that the skins had been ruined and could not be used to make leather. The following year Rolf was again at the shop and Casar said he had given Taylor some money, wool, an ax and a pig which Rolf though was worth probably worth 5 pounds total. Casar said that "his Master was too hard upon him to ask for his pay so fast." Frye JP Salem

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Transcription:I Daniel Rolf of lawfull Age testify that some Time in the year 1769 I was at the Shop that Caesar worked in at Danvers and was talking with said Casar about some Money his Master Taylor had let him have to buy Skins with; Casar then told me that he had met with a great Loss of some hundreds of Skins by being put into Water and taken out too soon, so that he could not make leather of them, which Loss had put it out of his Power to pay his said Master any of the Money he owed him and in the next year after I was again at his said Casar Shop and he then told me that he had let his Master have some Money, some Wool, Tolat[?] and Ax, and a Pig, which the Deponent then thought would convert to about five pounds Lawfull Money, and which Casar said was the chief of what he hdd ever paid him, and he further said his Master was too hard upon him to ask for his pay so fast. David Rolf Essex Salem Nov 13, 1771 Sworn to Before Peter Frye Justice of the Peace P. Frye

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