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[[stamp]] THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF THE UNITED STATES [[/stamp]]
[[stamp]] RECEIVED OFFICE SUPT. 2d DIST. 1866 [[/stamp]]
Dinwiddie

Dinwiddie C.H. Va
March 31st 1866

Col O Brown
Asst Commissioner State of Va

Colonel
In accordance with Circular No 6 Hd Qrs Asst Com State of Fa dated Richmond Jan 29th 1866 I have the honor to make the following report for the month of March

The condition of Freedmen affairs in the county of Dinwiddie is generally favorable and a pretty good state of feeling exists between the whites and Blacks though it is my unpleasant duty to inform you that since my last Report a Freedman has been killed about six miles from the Court House by a white boy.

The name of the murdered man was John Bows, employed as a laborer on the farm of Wm F. Barnes Sen., and that of the boy Wm F. Barnes, a son of the employer, a youth of seventeen.

A difficulty occurred between the two in regard to the grooming of a horse by the Freedman, a scuffle ensued, and Barnes stabbed the negro in the belly with an ordinary sized pocket knife.

There does not appear to have been any pre-meditated mischief and Mr Barnes Sen is well known throughout the county for his general good character and kind treatment of his freedmen. After the deed had been done he sent for a physician and tended the wounded

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