d's
figures up as follows (I copy again from the printed United States Senate
document):
The United States in account with the legal representatives
of George Fisher, deceased.
DOL.C
1813.--To 550 head of cattle, at 10 dollars, ............. 5,500.00
To 86 head of drove hogs, ......................... 1,204.00
To 350 head of stock hogs, ........................ 1,750.00
To 100 ACRES OF CORN ON BASSETT'S CREEK, .......... 6,000.00
To 8 barrels of whisky, ........................... 350.00
To 2 barrels of brandy, ........................... 280.00
To 1 barrel of rum, ............................... 70.00
To dry-goods and merchandise in store, ............ 1,100.00
To 35 acres of wheat, ............................. 350.00
To 2,000 hides, ................................... 4,000.00
To furs and hats in store, ........................ 600.00
To crockery ware in store, ........................ 100.00
To smith's and carpenter's tools, ................. 250.00
To houses burned and destroyed, ................... 600.00
To 4 dozen bottles of wine, ....................... 48.00
1814.--To 120 acres of corn on Alabama River, ............ 9,500.00
To crops of peas, fodder, etc. .................... 3,250.00
Total, ..........................34,952.00
To interest on $22,202, from July 1813
to November 1860, 47 years and 4 months, .......63,053.68
To interest on $12,750, from September
1814 to November 1860, 46 years and 2 months, ..35,317.50
Total, ........................ 133,323.18
He puts everything in this time. He does not even allow that the Indians
destroyed the crockery or drank the four dozen bottles of (currant) wine.
When it came to supernatural comprehensiveness in "gobbling," John B.
Floyd was without his equal, in his own or any other generation.
Subtracting from the above total the $67,000 already paid to
George Fisher's implacable heirs, Mr. Floyd announced that the government
was still indebted to them in the sum of sixty-six thousand five hundred
and nineteen dollars and eighty-five cents, "which," Mr. Floyd
complacently remarks, "will be paid, accordingly, to the administrator of
the estate of George Fisher, dec
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