Viewing page 17 of 239

This transcription has been completed. Contact us with corrections.

W. B. Hardaway Shf

Eutaw Ala July 6th 1867.
Greene Co 

Rev Mr. J A McCulchild

Dear sir.

At the request of Lee Childs Freedman whose case you are looking after at Montgomery I write that Mr Fred Childs at his instance has called on me and affirms that it is true.

1st.  That the colored people on said Child's place last year [[strikethrough]] had taken away and were [[/strikethrough]] after making a crop of cotton cotton of 36 bales of cotton were so dealt with by parties that they did not get any thing for his labor through per agreement they were to have half of the crop.

Likewise their stock of 6 mules which were bought for the said Freedmen were taken away with the cotton by the sheriffs and sold not for their debts or for any matter in which they have any interest whatever.  By the unjust course [[strikethrough]] course [[/strikethrough]] pursued to them they have been injured to the extent of 18 bales of cotton [[strikethrough]] besides other things [[/strikethrough]]