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I was at Shandy Hall attending the sale on the 12th of Dec. 1866

At the first of the affray I was sitting on a horse belonging to Wm McCarty. This was right by the stable at the outlet of the lawn, belonging to Shandy Hall. A white man named Hamilton Dudley mounted a grey house. There was present on foot the following named white men: Madison Morgan, Wm McCarty, and Cyrus Harding. There were but two colored men near. One was named Lewis Jones, standing on a dung-heap, the other William Glasgo, was standing in a cellar door of the aforesaid stable. They were there, civilly looking at the aforementioned white men. When of the white men, named Hamilton Dudley, who was mounted commenced to back his horse, up toward the colored man named Lewis Jones, and endeavored to make the horse kick him. The horse did kick, but Jones kept backing up, and in the mean time seized a wagon pole, with which he fended the horse off. In a few moments he got astride of the said pole, and said "I've got a horse too." Dudley commanded the negro to put the pole down; and threatened that unless he did so, he would hurt him. Then the other whites aforementioned, began to interfere in Dudleys behalf, but uttering threats &c., to scare or drive the negro away. Then the other negro named William 
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