Peter Pratt's Freedman's Bureau Record Testimony, Feb. 3, 1867

Item

Title
Peter Pratt's Freedman's Bureau Record Testimony, Feb. 3, 1867
Date
February 3, 1867
Publisher
Ancestry.com
Rights Holder
The National Archives in Washington, DC; Washington, DC; Records of the Field Offices for the State of Alabama, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865-1872; NARA Series Number: M1900; NARA Reel Number: 34; NARA Record Group Number: 105; NA
transcript
"Feb. 3-
Peter Pratt (col'd) states that friday Feb 1st his son Peter had an affray with Willie Fiquet who struck him (Peter) first about a girl wasting water and the two then exchanged blows and Willie struck Peter with a stick Peter then left and went home. [word illegible] Feb 3rd he returned to Mr Fiquets for his clothes when Charley Fiquet led him from the kitchen to the stable and gave him a beating with a stick - witness Jim [Knuckles] Peter Balth, Bill Neal, and Henry McGuire"