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Report of Names of Freedpeople who have been murdered or assaulted with intent to kill in the Sub. District of Rome Ga. from January 1st 1868 to October 31st 1868

[[7 Columned Table]]
| Date | Names of Freedpeople murdered or assaulted with intent to kill | Names of Parties assaulting | Where committed | Nature & extent of the injuries | Cause of assault | Disposition & Remarks. |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |

| Feb. 19th | Ellen Carlisle | Unknown Whites | Cass. Co | Shot through the shoulder with a gun while sitting in the house | Unknown |   |

| Feb. 20th | Frederick Jones | James Cox White | Whitfield Co | Struck him with a chair over the head cutting a long gash leaving the skull bare | A slight misunderstanding in regard to their work | Arrested & bound over to appear at Court. |

| March 11th | Jacob Reed | Wm Brown White | Cass Co | Shot in the leg causing a flesh wound | Acused him of entering his garden | Arrested & bound over to appear at next Court. |

| March 11th | Infant Child | Mary Brooks Colored Its mother | Cass Co | Cut its throat with a knife | The mother lacked sense | Arrested tried convicted and sentenced to Penitentiary for life. |

| Mar 28. | Georgia Baker her mother and Elisha Daniels | Mat Thompson Thomas Jones J.R. Jones White | Gordon Co | Fired at them but they escaped and fled to the woods | None | They were arrested at the instigation of the Bureau Agent & bound over to Court. |

| Apr. 3d | Jonas Thomas | J.R. Jones White | Gordon Co | Assaulted him with a large stick threatening to kill him. | Denying that he told a lie which he was accused of telling | Arrested & bound over to appear at Court |

| Apr. 6 | Frank Guber | Thomas Guber White | Gordon Co. | Struck him with a shoe but was prevented from killing him by others. | For denying that he cut down cotton of which he was accused | Arrested & bound over to appear at Court. |

| Apr. 24 | Samuel Johnson | Amps Morrison | White | Cass Co. | Assaulted with a knife & badly cut on the hand | None | Party escaped |

| May 13. | Henry Gordon | Rush Cannon White | Cass Co | Attacked with a large stick, Head badly bruised | None | Arrested tried & sentenced to Jail for twenty days. |

| May 18th | Badger Hawkins | Bill McWhorter White | Chatooga Co. | Put a rope about his neck and hung him to a tree threa- | To make him confess that he had found some money | Arrested at the instigation of Bureau officer tried and bound |

Transcription Notes:
11.27.2022 - The summaries for these incidents in much more legible handwriting is found on Pages 249, 250, and 251 of this project, using these summaries to cross-match and confirm names and details