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Ridgeville

April 6, 1868

Gen R.K. Scott

This will inform you that I received a note from one of your Commissioners that states that a Freedman by the name of Mr. Wesley who states that I have property in my hands belonging to him unlawfully the charge can deny with a clear conscience and can give testimony by every free man on plantation I will now state to you the  sollemn [[solemn]] fact the said Mr. Wesley never lived on my place. I never knew him before last August. I employed one of his sons to cut wood for me and while he was cutting wood he was taken very ill and I took in my house and gave him medicine untill he recovered.  When he left and went home he found the paid Mr. Wesley his father very low and his three sons & daughters and came back told me their cituation [[situation]] and beged [[begged]] for medicine for them and saw they were suffering for subsistance and furthermore said that the gentleman that had them employed said if they all died in a pile he would not give them medicine.  They even tried to get a physician and could get none to all