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again in jail. I saw Mr. Leeny [[?]] in the evening told him that if I punished the n. as ordered, after the wound he had recd.  he would perish, cant I let him off after tying him up. Mr Leeny said no. then told him that he had appointed Mr Ramsay over him I had a witness to see me administer the punishment. Ramsay went about the crowd stating that if he [[usually? personally?]] did not give full punishment he would arrest him. The negro was cared for me as well as well as I could, his wife was permitted to stand by him. I did these things from compulsion, the negro had been missing I don't know where he is.


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