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At Office, Bellville April 30/67

Capt Lancaster
Hempstead,

I received from you a verbal communication through the four freedman who applied to you in regard to the riot between Wilson Hanks & themselves on the one part & certain White persons in the neighborhood of San Felipe upon the other wherein one Ben Cowen was killed last Sunday - Since the boys have come to my house I learn from good authority that a large portion of the neighborhood are in arms hunting after the wounded freedman, the aforesaid Wilson Hanks & his friends for the purpose of killing them - If there is a single freedman in this 

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