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Dr. J.B. Prewitt, having been sworn deposes, & says that he met Joseph Brisco in White Oak Swamp, and asked him how he was pleased with his home, Brisco answered that he was not satisfied, and that he would not stay over there - and further that some of Beall's neighbors had said that no freedmen should stay in that neighborhood (which is so, for I heard one say, so myself) and that he (Beall) had not had means of making a crop

J B Prewitt MD

R.S. Wheat having been sworn, deposes and says; that he met with Jo Brisco in Wheatville one day, while living with Beall, and asked him how he was pleased with his location - he answered that he was not satisfied, and that he did not intend to stay with (Beall) - that he wanted to go back to W.E. Hart's

I further say that W.C. Beall did not have either, the open land to work the Negroes or the provision to feed them - Wheras W.E. Hart had both