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[[left margin]] R. Nov 14th/67[[/left margin]]
[[right margin]]990-11-67[[/right margin]]

Bear with me Genl Swain when I add that these children are as fully apprenticed as any in the State, for the mothers sent up their written petitions, duly are things and to P.O. Hasper Probate Judge for our County to have their children apprenticed to my wife, with whom they had been born & raised to that time, urging her to take them. This will all appear by examination in Probates office in Lafayette - carrying out her obligations my wife is entitled to the custody &c of all, but as I have said she is willing for all to be made void should the mothers give her the oldest of each family for fair pay, not troubling her in the meantime. What you may do in the premises notifying Judge Sturdevant of any other will be satisfactory.
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