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his eye with a poker, nearly blinding him; because, in their absence, they said he had neglected his work. Hudson afterwards acknowledged he was wrong, "being in a passion at the time", & promised to give the Freedman 10$ entru; at the end of the year, if he would remain. This man complained to me; but as the "Grand Jury" had adjourned (been discharged), he had no witnesses, & was not afraid (or could not swear that he was) of future injury, I could do no better than advise him to return & take Hudson at his word. The latter called in, the same day, to complain that the Freedman named & also another employed with him; had left & wanted to know what could be done to get them back; but on discovering that I knew the full particulars, he acknowledged the truth of all the Freedman had said.

"Emily L. Padue" working for the last six months on the farm of "Isaac Padue" white an agreement "to make the crop" for food & clothes for herself & five small children, accused of giving impudence" because when told to put in the wheat for next year she asked what they intended to give her, was beaten with a cane over her head & shoulder, bruising her badly and she & her children, and her sister & her three children, there on the same terms, were all driven off, the farmer having reserved, besides her food for herself & children barely five yards of cotton cloth, for the the whole time she had worked. I sent this woman to a magistrate, with the request that he will see her righted & [[strikethrough]] justified [[/strikethrough]] protected; for threats of shooting her had also been indulged in - as is customary.

"Ferdinand Feurgerson" freed lad, seventeen years old, was beaten over head & shoulders with a chair, in the hands of "Patrick Lynch" steward of the Poor House, to whom he hired about three months after Christmas,

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