The weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1869-18??, 1870-09-07

some week or two, Long call All. r
meeting of the different camps j.. .;1:.r,ds
near Graham. When assembrl.-. ;. iold
them that he should call In IL ...ulnty
meetings, as there WAS too mhrl, re and
confusion, and danger of dritca that
he was opposed to shipping and king
notice of frivolous matters; III tine only
punishment they ought to inllnl WAS dea tn
and that in the case of rape an such Ii Ike
when the civil authority DAT not punish
the guilty. e;
There were no more county III .ings nor
any meeting of the camp ii Itch / was
chief. 1t dropped Whether any other
camp in the county was kept RI after that
he does not know. The chiefs ,of the sew
cralal camps were: OF the first Jacob Long.
who was chief of the county; OF the second,
Jasper N. Wood; of the third, Geo. An
thony, he thinks; of the sixth, David Me.
bane; of the seventh, VIM. Stockard. John
Durham was chief, but the number of
camp he don't know. 40.
After this he heard from George Baron
that there was probably another Order, and
that James Patterson knew something about
it. Shortly afterward, at Graham, James
Patterson and Armitad Patterson swore him
into the Order, known as the Constitutional
Union Guards. The oath he then took, or
copy of it, he sent to the Governor
There were present at the time Patterson
Seguin, James Hunter, John Stockard he
thinks, Lug. Scott, and James Frost. They
were all sworn to obey strictly the orders of
their superior officers Patterson had the
evening before established Khan on the
south side of the Alamance, of which he.
Wood, was appointed South Commander
At the same meeting the following officers
were elected:
James Bradshaw, North Commander.
Pope Bradshaw, East Commander.
Joe b. Thompson, West Commander.
John Wood, Secretary.
John Teer, Treasurer.
Robert Hunter, Inside Guard.
Richard Thompson, Outside Guard.
At this and subsequent meetings, which
were held about once a month, the follow
ing persons were MATED and sworn, to wit
VIM. Alexi Wilson, John Newlin, George
Sheppard, VIM. Mebane. Turner Bradshaw,
Patterson Thompson, Siren Bradshaw and
Others.
This Khan and Patterson's Khan agreed to
exchange work, if nothing was done rashly.
Mike Thompson told HIM, Wood, that
Oscar Teer, Mike Teer, Jim Bradshaw and
himself were at the hanging of the negroes
who were executed for barn burning in
Orange; also that Col. Webb and himself
took the two negro men out of the house.
Shortly afterward Jim Bradshaw and 9TH
ers sent him, Wood, word that raid was
to be made upon the house of Caswell
Holt, colored man, to destroy his house
and effects. He, Wood, refused to go. Jas.
Frost told him that upon the refusal of Holt
to open the door, that Jim Bradshaw shot
through the door, wounding him. Some
time after the above occurrence Jim Brad
shaw, who had been to Hillsborough,
brought him, Wood, note which, after
reading l was to deliver to James Patter-
son. The note read as follows:
HILLsBoRoUafi, N. C.
"Resolved in solemn council, that one
Shoffner, who introduced the Military Bill,
shall be executed on - night"
The date he docs not recollect. This note
was signed in cypher, which he, Wood and
Patterson could not read. Both ne, Foust,
and Patterson refused to have anything to
do with it. Jim Bradshaw stated, so Foust
said, that he was in council, in Hillsborough,
with Col. Webb, Nash, Stru dwick, and
Others, when this plot was agreed upon.
As to the Outlaw murder, he Wood heard
]. R. Stockard say that he slept with man
who was there the flight it took place.
Mike Thompson told him Wood after
ward that but three men took hold of Out
law, of whom NJ. Thompson and Jim Brad
shaw were two; that the crowd in attend
ance were from Orange and Alamance
Fisher Bradshaw, at party near his
(Wood's) house, told him Wood that
old Bill Purgeon had reported somebody
the other side of the river, and would, be
expected, go up that night" DR.. Wilson,
on the day Purgeon's body was found, said,
in Woods presence, that the body, from
what he could learn, had changed its posi-
ton in the water. j. N. WooD.
Witnesses: VIM ]. CLARKE, s, A. DoUG-
LAS.
l further state that, at the time of my
joining the organization, was informed, by
the man who initiated me, that Jo Turner
was commander of the State Central Khan.
]. N. WOOD.
Witnesses: WIN. ]. CLARKE, s. A. DoUG-
LAS. fss &