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Bridgeville Pickens Cty
May 6th 1867-

Maj Gen Wager Swayne
Montgomery Ala

Sir-
I have the honor to most respectfully state that the order No 3. in section to the discontinuance of apprentices &c finds me with five small colored children, orphans from 2 to 8 years old, utterly incapable of self management or support, and that I am paying a freewoman $7 5- to cook was and otherwise care for said children.  My request of their dying Father I had them all duly apprenticed to me and in good faith intended to perform but as the law discontinuing this relation