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Hokes Bluff  May 8th 1867.

Superintendent Freedman's Bureau

In my letter to you of last week I did not give you the exact date of the order of Judge Standefer binding out the little boy Claborn Littlefield to E. H. Johnson the order is dated the 11 July 1866. I hope this with my letter of last week will be satisfactory
I am requested by some freedpeople to lay before you another case. A freed man by the name of William Crankfield and his wife and a single Freed woman by the name of Rachel Crankfield hired themselves out last year to one Alexander Jones who at first promised to go into writing with them but defered it continuously through the whole year and when the year was out he has turned them off without paying them and says he will not do it alledging that his account is fully as large as theirs. I understand from the man Crankfield that he (Jones) charges him seventeen dollars for a pair of Jones pants and he charges them for washing their cloths when in fact they did their own washing themselves
Crankfield got one of his neighbors a white man to go with him and try and get Jones to settle with him but Jones tried to knock Crankfield in the head with a stick alledging that Crankfield

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