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freedman restored back to my plantation to the said Ebenezer Williams freedman and under my control & supervision and also to have arrested the parties who shot as said Dublin Casey, James Faulk Mark Faulk & Thos Philips were all the men I saw in possession after they had shot at & ran said Dublin Casey down &c also to impeach the justice Efurd for malpractice in office when he was informed by me of the Law &c William Bostic in the name of the other justice of the peace in Louisville Beat both of whom have disregarded the Law relating to freedman and have sold them in several cases in said Louisville Beat my request is for you to correct all these wrongs as it has a bad influence in many ways, 1st it drives freedman from the this locality to seek justices elsewhere, whose labour is almost indispensable 2d it causes them to have no confidence in the white race however honest &c I will refer you to Harvey Faulk Esqr a Member of the Legislature and also HH Duplin another Member also both of the lower house, of my reliability &c Harvey Faulk Esqr can give you special information touching the conduct of their selling freedman as he lives in said Louisville Beat and is well acquainted with all their acts &c