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gun. Mr Nick Ware replied that if he had forty thousand pistols belonging to black men he would not give them up without the highest authority came and made him give them up, that there were not men enough there to make him do it he then asked who told me his Boys were at my house the night before. I told him I knew them when they were there. then Rob Ware jumped out and began throwing stones at me. asking a young white man who was with me if we were the Boys who were going to Augusta. Rob Ware told me to go and when I came back to bring them with me.

Wiley Benson his X mark

Subscribed & Sworn to before me this 29th day of Nov 1865
W W Deane
Capt & A.A.G.

Copy No 2
Augusta Ga Nov 29th 1865

William Hopkins Freedman living about ten miles from Washington and one mile from Jacksons crop road on oath says, that on the night of Saturday the 25th day of Nov. at about 10 Oclock, a party of white men came to his House, and called to him to come out of his house he told the party he would not go out. They told him if he did not open the door, they would shoot into the house he then opened the door, and one of the party came in and told him to give him his shot gun. as no Colored men