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Sub Dist Nansecomd and Isle of Wight Counties Office Asst SUpt Bureau RF and AL Suffolk Va July 30th 1866 Captain In compliance with Paragraphs 5 and 6 Circular No 10 Current Series Bureau RF &c State of Virginia I have the honor to report Mannie Ballard a colored man living near Windsor in Isle of Wight County, complains that on the night of Sunday July 1st 1866 a man named Edwin Ely and three or four others broke into his house as he was retiring to bed, fired at him wounding him severely also wounding his child; the assailants then took Ballards wife and gave her a severe whipping. Ballard applied to Justice Ashman of Windsor for redress, but dare not name Ely unless the magistrate would promise him protection, for fear of assassination. This the magistrate declined, and no action was taken. My Court has no jurisdiction in Isle of Wight County.