Miscellaneous Records Relating to Murders and Other Criminal Offenses Committed in Texas
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content: Records of the Assistant Commissioner for the State of Texas Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865–1869
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content: Records of the Assistant Commissioner for the State of Texas Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865–1869 / Series 8: Records Relating to Murders, Outrages, and Other Criminal Offenses
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content: 1865–68
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content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
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content: NMAAHC.FB.M821, Subseries 8.3
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content: Archival materials
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content: The miscellaneous records relating to murders and other criminal offenses, 1865–1868, include unregistered reports relating to murders and outrages, 1865–1866; lists of criminal offenses reported and not reported by the subassistant commissioners, March 1868; fair copies of documents relating to murders and outrages, June–August 1868; copies of testimony taken in 1865 at Brazos Bottom, Burleson County, relating to the murder of the freedman Kit by his master John Eckols; affidavits of March 1868 from citizens of Texas, mostly in Dallas County, who had been arrested by orders of Bureau officials and who appeared before notaries public; and a report dated February 26, 1867, of an inspection of the Texas State penitentiary at Huntsville, Walker County, the appendix of which lists 209 freedmen confined, including their names, counties of residence, crimes allegedly committed, sentences, and miscellaneous remarks.