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	“The German shoernan h~d a covered wagon, I was put in the wagon covered by boxes, taken tohou3e on south sharp Street and there kept until a Er. Geor:e Stone took rae to i1rederick City v;here I stayed until 18c3, when ~r. Stone, a me~aber of the Lutheran church, had me christened giving mc the name of James )~igr~ins. This is how I ~ot the na~ne of Wi~:ins, after my father, instead or Gingerbread, throu~~h the investigation and the information given by LIr. Brooks.

	~	“You know the Reveils are well known in Anne .A,rundel County, consisting of a )arL)e farriily, each f~unily a lar~e property owner. I can‘t say how many acres were owned by Jim Reveil, he was a general fariner having a few slaves, you see I was a small boy. I can‘t ans~er all the questions you want.

	“There were a great many people in Anne Arundel who did not believe in slavery and many free colored people. These conditions caused conflicts be~ tween the free colored who many times were charged with aiding the slaves and the whites who were not favorably impressed with slavery and the others who be~ lieved in slavery. As a result, the patrollers were numerou~I remember of seeing Jim Reveil coming home ve~ry much battered and beaten up as a result of an encou;:~ter with a number of free people and white people and those ~thîo were msL~bers of the patrollers.

	“As a child I was very fond of dancing, especially the jig and buck. I niade money as I stated befdre, I played children‘s plays of that t~ie, top, marbiès and another garne we~alled skinny&~kinny w~s a game played on trees and grape vines.

	“As a boy I wa~very healthy, I never had a doctor dntil I was over 50 years old. I don‘t k*ow anything about the medical tx~eat~e~± ~ ‚ that day, you never need medicine: unless you are ailing and I never ailed.‘ ~