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Georgetown June 26"/68

Mr. Kendall

Sir.  
A few months since you gave Penrose Payne and Julia Payne a marriage license, though we had been married several years, but at the time of our marriage as we were both slaves, we could not get a license. My husband and his family now say that the license you gave was of no use and three weeks ago he procured another and married another woman, though he had been married to me over six years and we had always lived together as man and wife.
Will you please tell me which of us is really his wife, according