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Office Sub Com Freedmans Bureau
Post of Okalona Dec 6" 1865

Personally appeared before me Wm. F. DuBois 1st Lt 108 U.S.C.I. & Sub Com Freedmans Bureau Okalona Miss, Julina Kendrick, Freedwoman of the County of Chickasaw State of Miss and made oath to the following 

My name is Julina Kendrick. I formerly belonged to Elizabeth Kendrick of the county and state aforesaid.

At the surrender I contracted to work for the said Elizabeth Kendrick untill the then growing crop was gathered for part of one fourth of the crop.

About Dec 1st 1865 the one forth of the crop was divided among the laborers and the contract settled.

The cabin in which I lived was standing on land belonging to a neighbor Charles Gates. Said Gates gave me permission to live in it 'till Christmas and I commenced working for myself immediately.

On or about the morning of Dec 4" 1865, Elizabeth Kendrick sent Nancy Kendrick, a little Freedman, to my cabin for two flat irons which my husband John Kendrick had bought with his own money while we were slaves of said Elizabeth Kendricks, telling her to tell me "to send her those flat irons." I told her to go back and tell her mistress that I had no irons but my own. She told her so, and Elizabeth Kendricks and her son Robert Kendricks came directly down to my cabin. Elizabeth Kendricks then asked me "where are those irons I want them?"