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    CLAIMS & PETITIONS

     

    Peter Edwards, Nov. 21, 1831

    Affidavit: Joseph Joiner

    Affidavit: John Womack

    Affidavit: Levi Waller

     

    Levi Waller, Dec. 12

     Affidavit: Alexander P. Peete

    Affidavit: Thomas Porter

     

    Richard Porter, Dec. 12

    Affidavit: John Edmunds

     

    Piety Reese, Dec. 29

    Affidavit: Howell Harris, Henry Moore, and Richard Moore

     

    Elizabeth Turner, Dec. 29

    Affidavit: Sampson C. Reese

    and John H. Barnes

     

    Thomas Fitzhugh, Dec. 29

    Affidavit: Alexander P. Peete

    Supporting Affidavit, Petition of Peter Edwards:

    John Womack

     

           Southampton County Va    Nov 21st 1831

                      I John Womack of lawful age, saith that I was in company with a party in pursuit of the negroes who were charged with being guilty of insurrection in said county August the 24th 1831 – we went to Peter Edwards and got [dinner?] and while resting an alarm was given that his man Nelson was in the orchard. We turned out after him and lost him, and returned to Edwards’s and when we got up to the yard his negro man Austin was standing in the yard by himself perfectly defenceless, when one of the party shot him down instantly. He had a powder gourd in his pocket. This affiant states he was a young likely fellow, and worth at least $400 and further this affiant saith not

     

                                                                                    John Womack

     

        Jerusalem Soampton County,

        Personally appeared before

    John Womack who made

    oath the above affidavit

                              A.P. Peete J.P.