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Churchville Va.
June 14th 1868

J.H. Hall 
Woodstock Va. 
Sir, 
I received your note of the 22nd Dec. 1867 on last evening 13th instant. Mary Minor came to me and made a statement of the threat that Mr. Coleman had made, which was a breach of the peace. I told her if she made oath to her complaint I would give her a warrant and have Coleman arrested, she declared she would swear to nothing and got very angry and went off. I have not heard of it till I received your note. Mary Minor has always claimed to be an Indian. She was free born & some twenty years ago, took up with a black-Negro who was free born and having been living together since. She is a woman of very high temper lives close to the public Ward & has several times gathered up stones & threatened to knock persons brains out I have been told that she stopped Coleman in the public road and threatened