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Gloucester C.H. Va. Sept 19th 1868

Dear Sir,
in compliance with your request that I would furnish you with a statement of the facts proved in the case lately decided in the County Court of Gloucester County of the Commonwealth vs. Baylor Thornton and John Thornton for a misdemenor, I give you the following account of the case.

On the 11th day of May last, as I see by referrence to the warrant, for I did not hear of the case till after the case had been heard before the case had been heard before the magistrate — John H. Tabb a white man of this county, made complaint before one of the Justices of the Peace of assault and ill treatment to him by John Thornton & Baylor Thornton, two freedmen, a warrant was issued the said freedmen arrested and taken before the justice, and they were sent on to the County court to answer a Bill of Indictment for the alleged offence, and in the meantime they were allowed to give bail for their appearance at the next June Term. $50 was the amount of bail required of each, and their securities were bound in a like sum.

At the June term the two Thornton's John & Baylor appeared, and I sent a Bill of Indictment against them to the grand Jury, the Indictment was for an assault, in the usual form in which indictments for that offense are framed, The Grand Jury, after hearing

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