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819 Sept 26th Sir, Joe Boyd (Freedman) states that on the 6th of August 1866 he made an agreement for himself at $12.00 and his wife (Madeira) at $8.00 pr month, with one Robt Thompson living about two miles from "Greene Cut", near the R.R. in the County of Banks, to work for him three months. That Mr Thompson agreed to pay them as they required the money. That after applying to him on two occasions for money to buy medicines for his wife who was very sick and being refused it he left him on the 18th of September that after finding a home for his wife he sent a wagon for her and for their clothing bedding &c. That Mr Thompson refused to let either go. That he (Joe) afterwards succeeded in getting away from the place at night. That during the time he was with Thompson he only paid him one dollar ($1.00)) in money and ten dollars and seventy five cents ($10.75) in orders on a grocery store. That he did not settle