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State of Texas
Washington County

Personally appeared before me the undersigned a justice of the Peace of Washington County Freedwoman Rachel Irington who being duly worn deposes and says that durring the summer of 1866 she worked on the Norris Plantation and that she had known William Howard and that said Howard worked on the same place for Mr. H. H. Herron and that said Howard had 50 acres of land to cultivate and that Mr. Herron furnished two yoke of steers and two mules to cultivate the said land with and that the mules were in good working order but that the steers were in poor condition and that she does not know at what time the teams were taken from the said Howard, and that at one time in plowing out Mr. Herron came in the field and told William Howard that he (Herron) wanted the steers and that the said Howard told him (Herron) that he could not spare them and that Herron told him (Howard) that if he did not give them up he (Herron) would blow his dam'd Brains out, and that then Howard gave up the steers and that about the 15th of May Herron took the mules from Howard and that from that time until the crop was laid by all the work was done with hoes, and that while Mr Herron did furnish teams he (Herron) did not furnish sufficient feed for 

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