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Bureau of Ref. Freedmen &c
Fayetteville N.C. Jan 19 1866

Col E. Whittlesey
Asst Comr Bur R.F. & A.L.
for N.C.

Colonel,
In consequences of the illness of Major Wilkesboro, the delay in getting instructions from Wilmington, between which city & this place there is no direct mail, the importance of immediate action in the case, if any can be taken, & the fact that the party liable in the case, if any one is, probably may be found in Raleigh, I trust you will excuse me for addressing the following statement directly to yourself. Rev Marble H. Taylor was a citizen of Robison County N.C. stationed as a circuit preacher in Hatteras Island  early in the war. & was afterwards Prov. Gov. there. His personal property, of considerable value, was left in charge of Mr. C. M. Monroe , his Uniform brother, - of Robison Co. &  Arch'd McKay of Seward Co. his friend. Under a law of Confed. States Govt. imposing heavy penalties for non-compliance, they were compelled to turn over his property to one Gaston H. Wilder of Raleigh as Receive for the Confed. States. Gov Wilder had this property sold him by John H. Cook, Auctioner, receiving the proceeds thereof amounting to about $175. The value of the property or cost of it, as estimated by M. Taylor for himself, was about $3000. About one third of it, in value