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On the next Saturday, the same company took Jack and Daniel Travick, freedmen, to the same place, and whipped them so that their bodies were completely cut up, and one of them had an eye torn out, after which they hung them upon the same tree on which Nathan had been hung. The bodies were taken down by Wesley Travick and buried by the same James, father of Nathan, under the superintendence of Wash. Travick, as before. These bodies were naked as the other was. The people were marched out to see these bodies after they were taken down.

On Wednesday, the Nathan was hung, the same company took Edna Travick, Jack's wife, a freedwoman about 30 years old, stripped her naked, stretched her out, and tied her hands to a fence and her feet to a tree, and whipped her with a whip, hickory, and strap, about five hundred lashes. Her body was completely cut up and welted from neck to heels, and for a week she was unable to leave her bed.

They also choked three women, Edna, Mary and Asia, by putting a slip noose round their necks and drawing them up two or three times, for a minute