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tied me across a log, and then John Lee, Marshall gave me about 150 lashes across the back with a buggy trace. The next morning, they drove myself & wife off the Plantation without paying us any wages at all. My wife is now at Claiborne.

There was a black man by the name of Stephen, who helped them whip me, and another black man by the name of Anderson who was close by and heard what was said, and saw John Lee, Marshall, whip me

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Sworn to and Subscribed before me this Twenty ninth day of May 1866
L J Whiting
Capt Act. Sup't B R F & 
A L District of Mobile,