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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 Levi Waller:

    Thomas Porter

     

    Southampton Co. to wit

     

                      I Thomas Porter of lawful age after being duly sworn depose and say that I saw Alfred a negro the property of Levi Waller tied to a tree by a party of the Greensville Dragoons who were engaged in suppressing the late insurrection in this county and shot by them.

     

                      I saw his ancles [sic] bandaged up at the time and heard that he had been previously hamstrung of another p arty who had asked taken him in pursuit of the insurgents—  I know that Alfred was a Blacksmith engaged in Mr. Waller’s shop.

     

                                                                               Thos. Porter

    Subscribed + sworn to

    before me this 22nd Nov 1831.

                      A. P. Peete