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[[stamp]] The National Archives of the United States [[/stamp]] 

Monticello Ga
Jasper County Feb the 8th 1867

Gen O O Howard
S.O.L. Vol 9 1867,

Sir

I write to you knowing you to be a good freand, to the Freed People of this State to inform you of sum the Grandfather of the Colored people of this country.
We have but one church that we can lay any claim to and that was built by Rever G. W. Pritchett for us
When we was Slaves then 
We had no church and was to poor to has one built. The good man bought the lot and had the house built at $650 dollars

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