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the other of the values of one hundred and seventy five Dollars. Affiant further deposes and says that said Scarborough further told him that on the same night, that is to say on the night of the nineteenth of May 1865, eleven Freedmen, living under a contract on the said Strudwick place ran away and left secretly
And the said affiant further deposeth that H. Scarborough as the agent aforesaid, informed him that he had ordered and directed the freedman Frank to keep guard over the mules and boxxes on the night of the 19th of May on which the two mules were stolen.

S Strudwick

Subscribed and Sworn to before me
this 6th of November 1865
Geo E. Markham Justice of the Peace

[[image]] one U.S. INTER. REVENUE FIVE CENTS CERTIFICATE stamp - Geo Washington; initialed and dated [[/image]]