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Run Hundred, when we proceeded to Vincent Traplings, who
we found some distance from his dwelling house, a hewing a
piece of timber, as soon as we came about 20 yards of him, he
found it was Capt. James Bosley when he immediately dropt
the ax and the piece of Timber and run to his dwelling house
saying all the way that he went with his hand waving at us,
that he would be damn'd if he did not blow James Bosley's
brains out, however his wife met him at the door crying out
to him for God sake not to get the gun and with her being so
uneasy prevented him, and then he turn'd about, and snatched
up a large Stick about three foot long, run up to Bosley and
laid on with both of his hands upon him while he was on his
horse, which cut him very bad upon his head. I suppose he
lost half a pint of blood from the wound, and Bosley told him
before he struck that if he would forewarn him from distrain-
ing that he would not proceed and go about his business, and
let the Gentlemen of the Committee handle him as they
thought proper, which he damned all the Committee for a
pack of damn'd rogues, and they might kiss his asse, and that
if they was there he would serve them in the same manner as
what I have done you, and that he would not give him the
liberty of going to the committee but would kill him before
he got out of his enclosures, throwing at Bosley stones and
every thing that came in his way, as he was riding to leave
him, and after he left Bosley and returned to me and made an
offer to strike me, and swore he had a great mind to give it
to me. We was inform'd by several of the neighbours that
Traplin threaten he would shoot Bosley when he came for his
fine, and I should have prevented him from striking Bosley or
myself by a Hanger I had by my side, if Mr Bosley had not of
told me before we came to Traplins not by any means to
strike him with the Hanger, however I went then to look for
Bosley, and when I came up with him I found him bleeding
and he mentioned to me if I thought it would not be better to
go to some house and wash the blood off of him and cut the
hair from the wound which I told him I thought it would be
best, we then rode up to a house belonging to John Stevenson
and found in the house a white servant man who got us some
water, and a pair of scissors and while I was cutting the hair
off the wound comes Traplin to the door cursing and swearing
at Bosley with a stick in his hand, and with that I slept to the
door and told him he did not act like a man of courage to fol-
low another off of his plantation after using a man after the
manner he had done Bosley, and after he and I had several
words he went off cursing and swearing like a mad man.
The whole of which I have inserted here I am verry willing
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