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expiration of three months, that he received orders to pay me but ($10) Ten dollars per month - I told him I made a legal contract with him for Twenty (20) dollars. He then left me but came back in about two hours after and told me he had received another order to pay me ($20) twenty dollars for the first month and ten (10) dollars for each of the other two. I took that as I was afraid I would get nothing. While I was employed by Mr. Tukey he sent me to tear down an old Rebel Guard house.  Part of the timber and boards was carried off by a Carpenter named Edward Johnson, who told me that Mr Tukey let him have it for ($1.50) one dollar and fifty cents per hundred.  Mr Robert Pickel bought sixteen (16) of the sills. I hauled a lot to Mr Tukeys house, and from that lot I hauled about twenty (20) loads to the colored church in a spring wagon. Mr Tukey also used some of the lumber in his house for partitions &c.

I have known him to sell clothing sent him for distribution to freedpeople.  His reputation among the colored people is very bad.  They do not consider him a Union man.  He is a great favorite with the rebels here.  I worked for Mr Tukey four months, for the first month I received twenty (20) dollars, for the second and third I got ($10) ten dollars each.  During the fourth month Capt Hern came here, and I signed the payroll and he paid me twenty ($20) dollars, according to my first contract. I have good reason therefore to believe that Mr Tukey cheated me out 

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