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he Bevely orderd her to get up and leave she refuesed to obay and he caught holt of the chair and piched her out in the flower and said now go I don't want no one to come whare I am that has treated me as mean as you have all three of the witnesses unite in saying that Bevely did not strike her a single blow the three witnesses ar Hensley Rogers, Jane Thomas and Lewis Hollowway and I understood Fanny went before the grandjury and made oath that Bevely beat her albut to death and they found a trued bill gainst him and one of his friends informed him that they ware fixing to put him in jale again and that he had better leave fourth with he fed his Horsies Monday morning geared his horse and left him in the stable with the gears on which was found thare by my self after the other plowers were gone to their work I walked up the lane to see if I could asetain the cause of his not going to work and saw him comeing from his sisters I asked him what was the matter and he said I am going to leave never to return I asked him if he was not deranged he said no master I am in my right mind as much as I ever was but they will not let me live in peace he said he hate to go and leave all of his friends but he said I understand that they are fixing to put me in jale agin and I am compeled to leave and said farwell master and went on
Now Gentlemen this man Bevely worked hard nearly five months and found him self he has returned to my house and did not clame any part of the crop but [[?]] L. M. Yancy and the other hands to allow him Something for his work and they have refused to pay him  the furs shilling unless he was get it by civil law now [[?]] he wants and what I want is for you to way this matter well and settle it between them I you should in your judgmt believe that he is intitled to pay for his labor say how much per month and I wish you would order L. M. Yancy and Samuel Hollowway to pay the amount over to Bevely Harris or to appear before you and show some Just cause why it Shoul not be D. Harris

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