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Elba Ala Janry 22nd/66 Brig Gen Swayne Asst Commr. of the Freedmens Bureau &c. Sir, I have been requested by the Rev. N. A. Moore to write you in relation to some negroes that he has in his possession which one Hays is trying to dispossess him of, by various strategies &c. these negroes were raised by the said Moore, as orphans their mother having died several years since, and their reputed father having abandoned his former master and left for parts unknown to him, Mr. Moore came to the probate judge, the Hon B.N. Starke
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