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Report of Freedpeople who have been Murdered or assaulted with intent to kill in the Counties of Richmond, Columbia, Jericho and Wilkes during the year commencing January 1st and ending October 31st 1868

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| Names of persons, Murdered or Assaulted | Killed | Extent and Nature of injury | Cause of the assault | Name and color of the offender | Arrested | Nature of the punishment inflicted | At large and probable whereabouts with Remarks |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |

Columbia County

| Peter Ashmore | Killed |   | Not known | Hulbert Grisson (white) and others | No |   | Ashmore was killed by Pistol Shot on the fall of 1867 at large whereabouts not known |

| Alic - | Killed |   | Difficulty in reference to some wood | John Cahoth (white) | No |   | This happen in the fall of 1867 on Dr Smith's plantation. The difficulty arose by Alic, burning some rails on said plantation, he was accused of doing so by Cahoth, the overseer, who told him not to burn them. it appears Alic burnt them, having no other wood to burn, when he told the overseer this, he the overseer took a piece of rail and knocked Alic down, who died thro' the effects of said rail. Said Cahoth after hearing of his death, fled to some parts of Florida |

| Bill - |   | Whipped | Political | (white) |   |   | This happened the latter end of October 1868. Bill and his wife were badly beaten by the Ku Klux in No. 4 District. |

| Mrs JK Curtis |   | Beaten | Not Known | Henry Evans | (white) | No |   | Curtis was struck on the head with a piece of a plough 3 feet long and who was also struck on the legs with a long piece of pine by said Henry Evans. This happened in the Summer of 1868 - |

| Dinah Sander |   | Shot in the head | accused of stealing clothes | Wm Honsney (white) | No |   | Honsney accused the woman of stealing clothes from Mrs Honsney, which she denied doing so, who shot her in the head. Said Honsney paid her husband a certain amount to let the matter drop. This happened about 4 miles from Harvey's Mills. Sometime in the Summer of 1868 |

| John Colver |   | Stabbed in the shoulder | No cause | overseer on Jim Hamilton's place | No |   |   |

| Percy Ramesy |   | Beaten | for not cooking to suit | Nate Hagy (white) | No |   | Ramsey was beaten on the head severely for not cooking to suit Hagy and Struck on the head by his son for the same cause |

| Henry Parks Colored States that at Hopping a Colored man was hung by the side of a black Jack tree. The man hung, with others was guarding these places for far |

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