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Wetumpka Ala
13th May 1867
General:
At the request of a Freedman Dick Rogers, who lived with me last year. I write you in relation to a couple of children, (girls) he had bound out last Fall, to his old mistress (Mrs Black) some 10 miles above here. Mrs Black is the owner of "Dennis Mills" a large plantation, and in good condition generally. Dick tells me (and I believe it is true) that Mr. & Mrs Black both went to Montg. last yr. & that you appv'd of the disposition of the Children. He has seen them twice since they ret'd to their old home & they are doing well, look well, well fed, well clothed, & learning to spell & read. 
He is bitterly opposed to their being taken away from Mrs Black. 
Some of the parties who took possession of them, when their Mother died, have taken the matter in hand, and are now asking aid thro' the colored Bapt. Church here by petition & otherwise to you, to have the children taken away from their present home, and brought back to town. The Mother of the children was partially raised by Dick & when on her death bed, made Dick promise to go and