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contracts had been entered into between the said complain-
ant and said Callaghan in the year 1798. These defend-
ants further state that the said Callaghan had openly
declared for several months before the time that he left
the State that he would move down the river to
Louisiana, and that these defendants believe that some
time in the month of June in the year 1798 he left
Harrison County. And these defendants deny all and
all manner of unlawful combination and confederacy
where with they stand charged, without that, that there
is any other matter, cause as thing in the complain-
ants said bill of complaint contained material or
effectual in the law for these defendants to make
answer unto and not herein and hereby well and
sufficiently answered, avoided, traversed or denied
is true to the knowledge & belief of these defendants
all which matters and things these defendants are
ready and willing to aver, maintain and prove as this
Honorable Court shall direct, and humbly prays to
be hence dismissed with their reasonable costs and
charges in the law in this behalf most wrongfully
sustained.

Hugh Miller Sen. and Benjamin Harrison
personally came before me and made oath that the
facts contained in the above answer are true as far
as relates to their own knowledge, and what facts they
have obtained from the information of others they
believe to be true. Given under my hand this 2d.
day of April 1799. Signed
William E. Boswell
and