LINGAN v. HENDERSON.

the purchase of said land; and whether did such conversations,
and your intimacy, continue down to the time of Mr. Henderson's
death; if yea, state whether in all such conversations relative to
said purchase, you understood from Mr. Henderson, the said land
was or was not paid for; or whether the said John Henderson con-
sidered himself in debt for the purchase money of said land ?

Answer. That he lived a near neighbour to Mr. Henderson, and
was very intimate with him, meeting him generally two or three
times a week, when this deponent was in the neighbourhood; that
Mr. Henderson was in the habit of making full and free communi-
cations with this deponent relative to his affairs; they had frequent
conversations relative to said purchase. This deponent always
understood from Mr. Henderson) that said land was not paid for,
and that he, Mr. Henderson, would not be able to pay for said
land. This deponent never understood from Mr. Henderson, that
he claimed any thing from General Lingan, except what he, Gene-
ral Lingan, might receive from his, Mr. Henderson's, father's estate.

4th Interr. Did you or did you not hear Mr. Henderson state
any thing as coming to him from the mill, which he and General
Lingan held in partnership; if yea, state the same, and when the
partnership in said mill was at an end ?

Answer. That he understood the partnership in the mill ceased,
when General Lingan moved to Montgomery county, which was
about the time Mr. Henderson went to live on the farm purchased
of General Lingan. The proportion of the profits to which Mr.
Henderson was entitled as partner in the mill, this deponent does
not know; he is under the impression, from his own observation,
and to the best of his recollection from conversations, that Mr.
Henderson told him the mill had made little or nothing, and that
little or no profits accrued from the partnership.

bth Interr. Did you or did you not hear Mr. Henderson state,
that he had purchased property for his own use, out of the partner-
ship funds of the said mill; if yea, state what?

Answer. That he understood from Mr. Henderson, that he pur-
chased a negro woman and child from the partnership fund.

6th Interr. Were you acquainted with the handwriting of Mr.
Henderson, and have you seen him write; if yea, state whether
the paper now shewn to you marked A is in the handwriting, and
the signature thereto in the handwriting of John Henderson ?

Answer. That the paper marked A, (the writing of the 10th
June 1807, set forth in the bill,) now shown to him is in the hand-