Evidence of M.P. Traynham being Sworn says on Friday a negro girl who Mr Todd had let his wife have to wait on her They had some difficulty and she told him at dinner and he threatened the girl if she did not behave herself, he would whip her and on Saturday the girls mother and my wife had a difficulty and when he came in at Dinner time his children told him of it and he called the girl out of the house & she refused to come and he went in and took hold of her and was pulling her out when a negro man Arch her Father caught him by the arm and slung him with violence away from the girl, he told arch to go away that he would whip the girl and caught the girl arch and his wife Milly both followed me and Milly told Arch to go back and let him whip her... Arch raised his axe and said he would cut the first one in two that put their hands on him and made at me with his axe raised I told my wife to being me my gun and she did so and I cocked both back, and presented the Gun at him and told him, to stand off but he still made at me with his axe Riasd I fired one barrel near his head but he still came on and was in about 6 or 8 feet of me when I fired the second barrel and he fell dead.