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Bureau R.F. and A Lands
Head qurs. 4th Division 5th Sub. Dist. Va.
Mathews Court House Va. Sept. 10th 1868.

S.C. Armstrong,
Sub. Asst. Comr. 5th Sub. Dist. Va.

Sir.

The following statement made to me by the Thorntons Baylor and John setting forth events as they have transpired between themselves and John H. Tabb is respectfully submitted.

I Baylor Thornton (Colored) on the 18th day of September 1866 entered into an agreement with one John H. Tabb of Gloucester Co. Va, (Copy of said agreement hereunto attached)  All went in well with the contracting parties until about the 1st of May 1867. When I, Baylor Thornton, together with my brother John Thornton engaged with one Wm B. Taleifero — a neighbor, to cultivate a peice of land of about five acres belonging to the said Taleifero and for the cultivation of which we, (myself and brother) were to receive three fourths of the crop raised thereon.
While engaged in working this crop a difficulty occured between ourselves on the one part and John Henry Tabb on the other, whose tenant I then was and now am, and I would here state, as my opinion, that this, and all subsequent troubles, between us and the said Tabb, have their origin in the ill feeling existing between the said Tabb and the said Taleifero, which said ill feeling dates back to a period prior to the late war;
This difficulty between ourselves and the said Tabb was occasioned by our erecting "draw bars" across a lane pertaining to the land I had leased from the said Tabb.  These "draw bars" were

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