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Evergreen Nov 26th 1867
Genl W Swayne 
Montgomery
Dear Sir
On the 2nd day of Jany 1866. I apprenticed to one John H Farnham, a girl aged nine years & a boy aged seven years, these children at that time had a mother living with Mr Farnham. It was shown that she was almost an invalid & was entirely destitute. My acquaintances with Mr Farnham he being a man of good character ample means. and a northern man - not prejudiced against colored people induced now to apprentice him these children. I done so feeling and fully believing that it was best for the children, one of them the girl is a Mulato without any father to claim her, the boy had a father but it was not known at that time certainly who he was, the Boy had a father but he had long since parted from the mother and Married another woman, and had exercised no controll over the boy,
In the spring following this apprenticeship some three months the mother became dissatisfied With the apprenticeship and applied to the Lieut in Command of the Company of federal troops in this country be applied to me, I caused the parties to come before.