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State of Texas.
County of Titus

Ned Poindexter, freedman, being duly sworn, deposes as follows" that on Sunday, the 16th of February "68, at night between 8 & 9 o'clock, 4 men (white) called at my door which was shut, and said they were camped out and wanted to get some fire. They  entered my cabin, situated on Mr. Thomas Curlocks plantation about a quarter mile from his house, (8) eight miles west of Pittsburg on Gray Rock road, about 12 miles from Gray Rock and the same distance from Mount Pleasant, ran up to me and pulled their cocked pistols against my face, took my shirt lying across my lap, which I was about to put on, and blindfolded me. and said "I want your money, or your blood," and called for the keys of my chest and trunk, in which I kept everything of value to me. I gave these men the keys. Then they took everything out of the trunk, all my wife's clothing and all my own; took my wash basin, sieve, took a sheet and pillow case. hair oil, blacking, hair brush, pins and needles; then called for the keys of the smoke house and took therefrom about 300 lbs of bacon, 1 pack of salt, 1 sack of meal (about two bushels) and emptied an other [[another]] sack of meal on the floor for the purpose of putting mine & my wife's clothing in it. They also took from my trunk my papers of registration, and seized a large overcoat belonging to me, in which I had sewed for safe keeping, between the lining and the cloth of the coat, 38 dollars in silver and gold. These four men were inquiring on Sunday of 16th inst. of a son of Mr Meiks for Mr. Tom Smith, who lives about 6 miles west of Pittsburg. Billy Hammuck, white, a neighbor of Smith's, told several in the settlement that he