Deposition Signed by Henry H. Parker

The City of Philadelphia [?] On the 9th day of October AD 1860 Personally appeared before me one of the alder men of the City of Philadelphia, Henry H Parker who when his solemn oath doth depose and say. That he was personally present at the meeting held at Milestown School House, and did hear.. W Morris Davis, say; "as followers "I feel this evening as though I had lost a brother," to say John Brown has died at the hands of as veritable a set of hands as ever existed - Hounds beacause cowards. Though dead he yet lives, and his works will exist - as a [lever?] between the North and the South. for the overthrow of slavery, And if it cannot. be abolished by amicable means, we will do it at the point of the . And I will be one who will be willing to assist The above is in substance of what he said on the day of the execution of John Brown at a sympathizing meeting of his friends. And further Lucretia Mott, differed with the speaker and thought it would be best to use milder means that more would be accomplished by keeping up the agitation of the slavery question. Sworn and subscribed before me Henry H. Parker this day 9th day of Oct AD 1860 James G Gibson [?](McCarty Ville)