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Before me personally appeared the undersigned Margaret Kerney and being duly sworn testifies as follows

My name is Margaret Kerney I live in the City of Memphis Tenn. In the night of the 3" day of May 1866, some persons came and set fire to my house while I was asleep, a colored man came to wake me up and they shot and wounded him twice, the house and all its contents was burned my loss amounts to $300.00

Margaret her X mark Kerney
Subscribed and Sworn to before me at Memphis Tenn this the 7" day of May 1866

M Walsh
Capt V.R.C. & PM Freedmen

A true Copy
F.M.H. Kendrick
Capt & A I Genl