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Personally appeared before me Thomas Jones and having been duly sworn deposes and Says

My name is Thomas Jones. I have been working at the Steam mill for Mr. Lopin overseer of Triune Pike and who lives about 7 miles from Nashville

There was a Colored Soldier belonging to the 17th U.S.C. Infantry killed last March at John Boskil's gate about 21 miles from Nashville and ½ mile this side of Triune, The name of the deceased Soldier was William or Charley Moore and belonged to Co. I. I have seen the man that killed him, his name is John Henry Griggs. I saw him last Friday at the Steam mill, Mr Harrington a White Soldier of a Wisconsin Regiment and living in Triune knows the man Griggs to have been the murderer, John Scripen (col) working at the Steam Mill also knows the man, Doctor Mills living at the House of Mr Boskil attended on the dying man, Lucy Boskil saw Griggs shoot the man Moore

He Henry Griggs boasts about it  

Transcription Notes:
It could be "talks" instead of "brags" "boasts"