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State of Alabama
Montgomery County

Personally appeared before me Geo. A. Harmount an Ass't Sup't. Bureau of Ref - F. and A.L. in said State and County; ~
Leah Evans Col'd and said that she was lying in her home at Mr. Carter Wade's about two weeks ago on Tuesday when Mr. Wade my employer came and ordered me and I told him I was sick and had been throwing up all night; he ordered me to go with him to Hayneville Lowndes County in said State, he took me about two miles from his plantation and then Mr. Wade and his overseer
Mr. Jim Jerrel took me in the woods stripped me stark naked and Mr. Jerrel whipped me about half an hour and Mr. Wade then whipped me about half an hour longer, they had my hands and feet tied to two trees and a handkerchief in my mouth every time I cried they kicked me in my mouth. They made me work the rest of the day and I ran away [[strikethrough]] that night. [[/strikethrough]] the next morning.
Witness my mark this 16th day of June 1866.
Leah her X Mark Evans
Sworn and subscribed to before me at Montgomery
City in said State and County this 16th day of June 1866.
Geo. A. Harmont
Asst. Supt. Bureau of Ref. F and A.L.
Dist of Montgomery Al.

Transcription Notes:
Edited: removed Archive stamp per Si not required to transcribe, many changes and corrections not sure if I transcribed the section with her mark correctly. They placed an x for her mark and labeled it between her printed first and last name - I considered it as an insertion