Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Wm. Bethel” in article pos=19 of The Daily Dispatch: August 31, 1863., [Electronic resource]:
...age we found recorded the names of Mary, slave of Madison Macon, and Armistead, slave of John R. Jones, both arrested as runaways; Joshua Maya, a free negro, feloniously stealing one feather bed; and Wm. Bethel , a white man, for assaulting and beating Michal Shea. B. was bailed to appear before the Mayor this morning.
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