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State of Georgia 
Pike County      

personally appeared before me C R Wilson one of the justices of the peace in and for said County Emanuel Pope after being duly sworn deposeth and saitheth that Marsh Matthews made a speech at Flat Rock Church on the fourth Sunday in October, in said speech used the following language if you will go to Tennessee or Mississippi we will give you A mule or horse and cow and calf and find you the first year and give you half of all you make after the first year. you can By law said Mathews said there was free transportation until Christmast if you go you Can school your Children and if you stay here and try to get a School you would find your teacher ar children tried and in the letters of same River are break
Matthews sayed the Bureagh would Be done away at Christ must and then you would have to have love a pray master and a pray mistress as same anywhere did Matthews said he could not do his duty to day and he did not have Enough of little joys along he