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No 1.

Personally appeared before me this seventeenth day of September 1866, William Sherwood of Baltimore County near Catonsville, who, being duly sworn, makes the following statement.
I was present at the Camp Meeting at Shipley's Woods on Thursday the 30th day of August 1866, and everything was quiet until near 12 o'clock. P.M., had been down to my wagon near the colored Camp, and just before the firing commenced came into the white people's altar; did not see anybody shoot, but heard a man named Dorsey - William Dorsey I think - say he had run down behind the altar and fired seven shots into the negroes; saw a large man there, dont recollect his name, who said he had been among the darkies and heard a yellow man say "rush upon those white men, who are annoying us." then the colored people made a rush, and the firing commenced, he also said (the large man)if he had had twenty good men, who had been in the Confederate Army, he could have cleaned out the whole Camp, but he would much sooner get at some of the damned abolitionists; the brother of Benson, the young man who was shot, expressed an opinion, that a negroe man employed by him was in the