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Before me personally appeared the undersigned John Lewis and being duly sworn deposes as follows

My Name is John Lewis  I live on Main Street in the City of Memphis Tenn  on the night of the 3d of May 1866 four white men came to my house and took from me $60.00 in money and a gun worth $25.00  Said they would kill me if I did not leave

John Lewis his x mark

Subscribed and Sworn to before me at Memphis Tenn this the 11th day of May 1866
(Signed) Mich Walsh
Capt and AAAG
& P M Freedmen

A true copy 
F.M H. Kendrick
Capt. and A.I. Genl

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F.M.H. Kendrick