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Vol 2 No 1731 A. C.  D.C. 1867
10,62
New Haven Conn
Apr 25th 1867

Baird John G.
M 2 Vol No. 1062, 1867

States that there is a demand for house servants and farmhand in that vicinity. Suggests that an agent be appointed to have charge of finding employment for freed people in that vicinity

Hd. QRs. ASs't com'r D. C. Received Apr 25 1867 Bureau R. F. & A. L.

Rec. O. L. S. Apr 26" 1867,

Bureau Refugees, Freedmen & Abandoned Lands
Head Quarters Assistant Commissioner, D.C.,
Washington, April 26th, 1867.

Respectfully referred to Lt. Col W. M. Beebe, Jr. Local Supt. D.C.

By order of Bvt. Gen. Howard
Wm. W. Rogers.
A A. A. General. 

 w Haven Conn, April 24th, 67
Howard,

Dr Sir,

For some ... my connection with ...  charitable association ... brought to my ... fact that there is demand in this vicinity -  for farm hands and house servants. Those who can be obtained are for the most part of Irish birth, and their self-importance is becoming so intolerable that there is a prevailing desire to displace them by a less obnoxious class of people. In this state of affairs many are looking southward, and are desirous

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