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From the bulk of testimony obtained, a part only is here introduced.
The remainder fully corroborates and strengthens that.

[No. 1. An Extract] DAWN MILLS, FEB. 19th, 1845.

CHARLES H. STEWART, ESQ.
MY DEAR BROTHER:

Your kind communication of the 13th came to hand yesterday.
I have made inquiries respecting Henry Bibb which may be of
service to you. Mr. Wm. Harrison, to whom you alluded in
your letter, is here. He is a respectable and worthy man--a
man of piety. I have just had an interview with him this
evening. He testifies, that he was well acquainted with
Henry Bibb in Trimble County, Ky., and that he sent a letter
to him by Thomas Henson, and got one in return from him. He
says that Bibb came out to Canada some three years ago, and
went back to get his wife up, but was betrayed at Cincinnati
by a colored man--that he was taken to Louisville but got
away--was taken again and lodged in jail, and sold off to
New Orleans, or he, (Harrison,) understood that he was taken
to New Orleans. He testifies that Bibb is a Methodist man,
and says that two persons who came on with him last Summer,
knew Bibb. One of these, Simpson Young, is now at Malden.
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Very respectfully, thy friend,
HIRAM WILSON.