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Jo. and Mat?"
Answer:- "You sometimes got drunk and cursed your wife, but did not trouble any one else." 
Q. by Dr. Beale:- "Were you at Jefferson all the time they worked at my house?" 
Answer:- "Yes." 
Q. by Dr. Beale:- "Did you see them after they moved to my house?"
Answer:- "No. Not until they returned to Mr. Hart's." 

Freedman Major being duly sworn testifies: "I came up when Mr. Hart's wagons came over the river one Sunday about planting time. They (I don't know who they were,) were asking Jo. Brisco and Matthew Snowball why they left Dr. Beales, and they said they could not make anything there, it would take all they made to pay the Doctor bills."
Question. Mr. Hart:- "Did they say whether they were forced off or not?"
Answer:- "No."
Q. Dr. Beale:- Were you at my house on Saturday morning?"
Answer:- "Yes."
Q. Dr. Beale:- "Did you say in presense of Jo. Brisco, Matthew Snowball, and myself that Mr. Hart had tried to induce freedmen to come up and help him out of the scrape?"
Answer:- "Yes." 

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