I have never seen any of the convicts whipped. I told Mr Moultrie not to work them too much as they had been _____ up in jail I do not think Mr Moultrie was working them at all. They worked very slow. I have instructed him to be very lenient with them ... His skin was dry and very hot it would almost burn my hand ... I have heard that he whipped him a few licks. He told me that he hit him eight or ten licks

Fed Martin picked up to the water bucket and drank two cups of water he then threw the dirt with a shovel and drank two cups full again ... he hit him about three light licks the negro would not rise he hit him two or three licks and asked him if her was sick the negro gave him no answer at all the negro got up straggered across the road and fell in the ditch he went over there told him to get up and asked if he was sick he called the convicts to put him in the shade got a fresh bucket of water put him in the shad poured fresh water on his pulse ... I did not see a negro girl in the road

America Burkett Sworn says I live on Edgefield road about one hundred yards from chain gang works, we were playing in the yard and heard a man say Oh god Damn you and heard a lick the white man was standing astride of Black Man, had his shirt rolled up and was whipping him he whipped about one half hour he used a strap. That is all the whipping I ever saw. When he stopped whipping him he told him to get up and he said he could not move and he started to whipping him again He did not say god damn you I will kill you He put a hundred licks on him When they pulled him up he staggered across the road and fell again. I did not see him drink the water

I have examined the dead body of (Disinterred) Fed. Martin and found it almost in a state of decomposition ... I took my knife and dissected the back all the way down and found no indications of bruised blood. It is my opinion from what I have heard that Fed Martin died from general congestion induced by an excess of cold water.

I think seven pints of cold water taken by a man very hot would have caused serious trouble and a severe whipping to a very sick man will undoubtedly hasten death