Affidavit, 7 July 1843–A

or of exterminating them if they should remain within it. (For proof of this fact, see the order of , dated Oct. 27, 1838, sent herewith) that this deponant and <​his​> people, received notices, warnings and orders from the civil and millitary officers of , as well as from mobs who co-operated with them, to leave the and were threatened with death if they refused. that this deponant, with others was taken prisoner by an armed mob, and oppressed, imprisoned and carried from place to place to place without authority of law. That his whole people comprising at least fifteen thousand families <​people​> were driven out like wild beasts— that hundreds were murdered by shooting, stabbing, beating, and by having their brains beaten out with clubs— great numbers were starved to death— many died from fatigue and hardships in the fields— women were ravished— children murdered, and every cruelty inflicted. This Deponant with his comerades was <​were​> imprisoned about six months, and until nearly all his people had been driven out of the — that they were then by order of the officers of the set at liberty and ordered to flee from the — that after they were released, they were pursued by armed men, who endeavored to shoot them— that they thus were pursued out of the , and were in peril of their lives as long as they remained within its limits.