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boombar us .	‘ Lir. i~artin gave hi s house up to the Progro i~1arshe11s, and my mother cleaned up the house ail‘ washed for them. Her naine was Caroline West.

	“•I remember when tbat Provo Liarshell told the colored

people that anyhouse in dilmin‘ton they liked, that was empty, they could go taJ~e it, an‘ the first one they took was the fine Bellamy ~~~ansion on Liarket an‘ Fifth Street.“

	~‘Unc1e Jackson‘t, asked the interviewer, ttdonft you remember that house was headquarters of the Federal Amiy? How could colored people occupy it?tt

	Uncle Jackson: “I don‘t remember nothirit about Federal soldiers bein‘ in that hôuse, but I‘m teflin‘ you I ~now~~ a lot of common colored folks was in it because I seen ‚ em sittin‘ on the piazza an‘ all up an‘ do~i those big front steps. I seen ‘em. Nice colored people wouldn‘t ‘a gone there. They had respec‘ for theirselves an‘ their white folks. Eut Dr. i3ellamy came home soon with his fam‘ly an‘ those colored people got out. ~hey wan‘t there long.

	‘Ei‘ o1f slavery I toted water for the fam‘ ly to drink. ]~ remember when there was springe under where the new Court House is now, and all the white folks livin‘ I round the re drank. water from thos e springs . They called.

it Jacob Spring. There was also a spring on ~iarket Street between Second ~id Third Streets, that was.called MeCrayer (MeCrary) spring. They didn‘ t ‘low nobody but rich folks to get water from that spring. Of co‘se I got ~ there