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Records of the Assistant Commissioner for the State of Georgia
Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands, 1865 - 1869
National Archives Publication M798 Roll 36
"Unbound Miscellaneous Papers"
Affidavit of Examination of Tempy Hill, Freedwoman charged with Assault & Battery
State of Georgia,
Wilkes County
Agency of Bureau R. F. & A. L.
Washington, Geo.
Personally appeared before me Tempy Hill, Freedwoman, who being duly sworn on oath says. That on Friday morning 25th day of May 1866 she saw Mr. Thomas W. Hill beating her sister-in-law and knock her down with a stick, whereupon she, Tempy, went up toward them to stop it when Mr. Hill struck her on the head with a stick and drew his pistol and cocked it and pointed it at me and said he would shoot me. I took up a rotten chunk of wood which I threw at him. He threw me down on the ground and choked me. My brother then came up and separated us. I then told him I was coming to town to report him and he said any of you that go to town shall not come back here.
Tempy (X) Hill
Sworn to and subscribed before me this 25th day of May, 1866.
Brien Maguire, J. P. &
Agt. Of Bureau of R. F. & A. L.
You will observe that Thos. W. Hill's attack on Lydia was rather an unprovoked one, while that of Tempy was somewhat justifiable on account of the relationship between Tempy & Lydia, they being sister-in-laws.
B. Maguire, Agt.
Affidavit of Lydia Hill, Freedwoman vs. Thomas W. Hill
Assault & Battery
State of Georgia
Wilkes County
Agency of Bureau of R. F. & A. L.
Washington, Geo.
Personally appeared before me Lydia Hill, Freedwoman, who being duly sworn on oath says that on Friday the 25th day of May 1866, she was assaulted and beaten by her employer, Mr. Thomas W. Hill, with a heavy stick with which he struck her on the side of the head which caused her to drop insensible on the ground and she only recollects said Hill striking her once after she fell, but she states that from marks on her person, that she must have received several blows.
Lydia (X) Hill
Sworn to and subscribed before me this 25th day of May 1866
Brien Maguire, J. P. & Agent of Bureau of R. F. & A. L.
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