Affidavit-1865, March 28

   Before the undersigned a Notary Public in and for the County of Washington and District of Columbia personally appeared Alexander S. Johnson who being duly sworn according to law on his oath says:

   That he is a son of Thomas Johnson, decd late of Jackson County Miso, and was familiar with the condition of his business with reference to the Shawnee Manual Labor School, having written his contract with the Missionary Board of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, and his letters to that Board, and having been entrusted by his father with the control and management of that business. That the contract between the society and his father was, that he was to fulfil the contract of maintaining the school made by the society with the Commissioner of Indian Affairs; the society to make title to Johnson of one section in consideration of services prior to the Treaty of 1854, and also to another section in consideration of Johnsons faithful execution of the contract for maintaining the school.

   Affiant also says that under that contract with the Board his father was to receive all the moneys paid by the Government for maintaining of the school–

   And, further, that the proposition made by his father to the Board April 19, 1861 for the purchase from it of the third section of land {the other two having been before that date consigned to my father by the Board), and which was accepted by it as appears by a transcript of its proceedings now on file in the Interior Department, was that he would pay the Society ten thousand dollars in full for it. And that the amount of that purchase money was fully paid & discharges by his father– five thousand five hundred dollars having been paid in cash, and the balance in the assumption of debts due and owing by the Society to certain Missionaries, Messrs. Scarritt, Meek, Peery, & Pinkard of Kansas.

Sworn and subscribed to before me this 28th day of March 1865
John S. Hollinshead
Notary Public

[Photostat copy in MSS. Dept., K.S.H.S.]