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| Ben Corbett. |   |   |   |   |   |   | struck in the face with the buts of hickories. |

| Unknown (white) Assaulted Adam Gaines | Whiped in the night | Decatur | No reason assigned | Aug 31 | No Arrests | Parts unknown | Several cases of this kind have occured. |

| "Roses" Dickerson W. Assault Zipha Jackson .C. | Beaten with a rail | Decatur [[strikethrough]] Dispute [[/strikethrough]] | Dispute | Sept 3 | Complaints made to civil authorities no arrests made at the time | Decatur | To be tried in civil court |

| William & Warren Donnaldson Wood Cox Wm Burton Wm Greene J.E. Lasseter & John King all white Shot Sandy Lucerage | Killed by musket shot & kicked | Decatur | Alleged resistance of an officer | Oct 12 | One man makes confession. No arrests | Some are in Hack D.C. & the rest left | A dreadful murder Wm Donaldson was Constable & says that he had a Warrant. Freedman 70 years old. To be investigated |

| Wm Stringer & 2 others (White) kidnaped Primus Hatcher .c. | Carried to Koone Bottom Florida. | Thomas | Rape. (It is said with a bad woman) | Jany 20 | No arrests. | Thomas Co | It was publicly known, & they were arrested by the civil authorities. It is reported that he was taken to Koon bottom & tortured to death in day light, by citizens |

There are a number more of cases of Assault that I can learn of but can get nothing full  Several very bad cases have hapened since Oct 12 but I have not yet got the particulars  But one Criminal case has been tried in the civil courts in Thomas Co in near two years, & that a freedman. 

Transcription Notes:
Koone Bottom = Coonbottom Florida