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me for the liberty I had taken, and went
and [moved?] his horse away from the man who I had
[crossed?] with, as soon as he did so I took the man his
horse, and returned home to his house, (for we all
lived on one plantation,) In a short time we was as
friendly as usual, I continued there until the fall of the
same year when I moved to Kentucky where I lived about
one year, when he came to see me, and persuaded me
to return to this State, and stay with him, which I ac-
cordingly done, and continued stay until I was arrested
and taken away which was about the last of December
1816. - The reason He then arrested me was because
we had a quarrel - We quarrelled [sic] a cause of our
trading &c. he immideately threatened to indict
me for stealing his horse, - I dared him to do so
and we [?] for some days at length he went
away one day and returned with the Sheriff or
some officer, and brought me to [rutherford?] Jail
where I staid [sic] about 3 days, when a man by the name
of Miller cut the door so as to let us out, and I
went to Kentucky, and Stayed some time, and then retur-
ned to see my wife and children, thinking the old
[man?] by this time time would be in a good humour
and compromise the thing, but as soon as he found I
had returned he had me taken again