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Chapel Hill  Sep 12th / 67

Gen Avery

Sir
I hope you will pardon ^[[insertion]] me [[/insertion]] the liberty of addressing you on a litle matter of business — I have in my family a servant girl of 16, & her infant child

She was left in my charge during the war by a Lady refugee from Newbern who has since died. We have not needed her Services for more than a year, though we have kept her, & fed her, because there was no one else to do it, & it is impossible for her to find a