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Sassafras Fork
Sept 19th 1867

Maj Genl Miles
Freedmans Bureau
Raleigh NC.

Genl
I worked with 3 other hands for Dr. Wm Thorp near Goshen in this county for the year 1867 for part of the crop. All but the Tobacco we received. This Tobacco was sold by said Thorp about four weeks ago And he refuses to let us have any share of the proceeds.

Please direct the Bureau officer at Henderson to investigate

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Transcription Notes:
The grammar seems odd but would make sense with a period to end the sentence instead of a run-on.