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Samuel Jackson to Sarah Jackson
Clifton Plantation
November 13th 1860
My dear Mother
I again find myself seated in the old mosquito house to address you a few lines. I arrived in safty at N. Orleans only forty two hours from Nashville and was pleased to meet Pa there, he wrote you from there. I have not heard from anyone since I came down I hope you are all well. Pa concluded not to hire his hands out in N. 0. or else whear, so I am busy with them all cleaning up and preparing for the sale which comes off on the 15th of December unless sold before. I have all the cotton gined
&	baled but a few bales also a hundred bales of hay and will have fifty more. I ship it	all on	Friday next.	Pa	and I went	over to
the City on last Friday expecting to start	up to the Ark.	river &
other places but on arriving in the City & hearing the election news & finding so much excitement found it necessary one of us should return. we met several members of the court of Hancock County and they told us they intended putting in force the law requiring every owner of slaves to have some one to overseer for them or be on the place them selves or they would be subject to a heavy fine or other pealties. So I returned & left Pa in N. 0.
Mr Nelson, Mr Woodlief & others advised him not to purchase at present, so I left him in N. 0 undetermined, not knowing what to do. he sayed he would	go and	look for a place	he thought	and if
successfull in finding	one he	would return	and	I would go	and see
it & would try and get it payable in cotton. We will be able to sell this place with out any trouble I think as there are good