Commonwelth of Kentucky
Against } Affidavit
Isaac Vertreese & John Erwin

Phillip B. Hicks says that he is the owner of the negro man Henry and has owned him from a child that he is the slave for selling ardent spirits to whom the Defendants in this action had Judgment rendered against them for 50$ at the March Term of the McClean Circuit Court 1864 he further says that the defendants had daily orders from him at the time of the finding of the Indictment and for sometime prior thereto to sell his said slave whisky Brandy or any other spiritious Liquors where ever he called for it

P. B. Hicks

Sworn to before me by Philip B Hicks Apr 11^th 1864

Louis L Moore clk