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Mendocinco County
State of California

James [F?] Eddy being [illegible]
[illegible]:
I am employed on the Round Valley Reservation. I know Henry Stergon of Butte County having acted in the capacity of Special Indian Agent in said county under [illegible] superintendent for the period of one year ending October 1868. His reputation is exceedingly bad being associated with those who rob Chinese miners. I have frequently heard him called a petty thief and charged with living in [rancheras?] with Indians. While removing the Indians of Butte County to the Reservation he made application to me to recover a squaw with whom he had been living, which I refused. He followed the train on the first days march remaining about the camp over night. I saw him next of the 7th of October 1863, at the camp of about seventy five Indians on the summit of the Mountains the Indians