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Buykeville, Elmore Co Ala
June 1" 1867

Maj. Genl Wager Swayne
Comdg Dist of Alabama

General
Henry Markerson a freedman, father of a family, having been assaulted with a stick and had a gun levelled at him by his employer Joseph Watt and his son Tom Watt, left their plantation and stayed a few days at my place, where from motives of humanity I gave him some food. 

He afterwards hired one of his children to a son of mine, and hired himself to other parties. He and his family were almost naked and entirely destitute.

Suit is now brought against me for what I did for his relief (under a law passed by the legislature of Alabama to prevent inter[[ference]]

Transcription Notes:
There is a place called Buyck in Elmore Co., so I assume "Buykeville" is a misspelling of "Buyckville."