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I, Charles  Mervine of the County of Montgomery State of Alabama do solemnly swear that a Freedwoman named Eliza Weaver of said State and County has complained to me, the said Mervine  that the judge of Probate of Pike County in said State has apprenticed her child aged [[strikethrough]] ei [[/strikethrough]] about eighteen years [[strikethrough]] and bring herself [[/strikethrough]] to John Blair of Pike County, without the consent of the said Eliza, the said child [[strikethrough]] also [[/strikethrough]] being a mother and being employed to Weaver of Montgomery County State aforesaid at the time she was apprenticed and that the Judge of Probate of Loundes County State aforesaid with two Freed children, from Mrs Susan Thompson plantation on which they were hired in Montgomery County in said State and apprenticed them to Hubbard Hinds of Loundes County in said State without the knowledge or consent of their parents and without giving said parents an opportunity of showing that he was able to support said children and that the said Hinds is a Justice of the Peace in said County and represents himself to be authorized to hold all contracts of Freed persons for labor and to collect the wages due by virtue of such contracts and that he has now a large number of said contracts in his possession