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Chambers County Jan 5th /66

Mayor Swain

Sir
Under a sense of justice I report to you a case that comes under my knowledge in reference to the freedmen in this part of the State. the case is this Peter Wells of Russell County Ala the former owner of two Boys aged seventeen & ninteen after the Boys had left him and came to Chambers County and contracted for this year with me and had went to work to make a support for themselves he Wells went to Crawford Russell County to Judge Waddel and had the Boys bound to him without their Knoledg [[knowledge]] or consent, and he came to my House and ordered them Home with him I gave them up that night. they come back I called on him and informed him that the Boys had come back and had gone to work on my farms and he came back that night with force and laid violent hands on one of the Boys and tied him and

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changed bays to boys changes and corrections