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I was at Shandy Hall on the 12th Dec. 1866, attending a public sale of the personal property of Mrs. Lucy Fleet. There was a fight on that day between the Whites and the Blacks. I was one of the actors in the affray.
About 1/2 past 10 o'clock a.m. a colored man came to me [[strikethrough]] and [[/strikethrough]] named Henry Curry, and told me that a White man wanted to see by the name of Mitchell, from Lancaster Co. Va. I went to see the man, I never saw him before. He told me that he had some Whisky on the ground that he wanted me to see for him. He said for doing the same, he would give me all I could drink, or pay me for selling it, just as I choosed. I agreed to do it. He then took me to his buggy behind a stable at the lower end of the rear lawn of the Hall. From it I took the demijohn in which the Whiskey was. He said there were two gallons of it. I then carried it down in a cellar under the aforementioned stable. In about an hour or two, Hamilton Dudley, William McCarty, Cyrus Harding & Madison Morgan, (all White men) came down in the stable (over)