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General Wager Swayne
Montgomery Ala

Lucy Abney, an humble freedwoman makes this application. She has a grand daughter named Alice Taylor whose Father and Mother are both dead and who is now living with Thomas S Bevill, the Agent of the Freedmans Bureau in this County. The said grand-daughter is about 13 years and 4 months old and last Christmas she cried at the thought of separating from her grandma, but Mr Bevill had got her bound out to him, without telling her Grandma anything about it. I am able to support my grandchild. My children are all grown. We would support Alice, I can do it myself. I work hard and I am healthy. Besides she can work too. I did not know when they were going to bind out my grandchild from me. I understand it was done just after her father had died, and before he was put in the ground. My grandchild is at an age when I want to have possession of her, I have called on Mr. Bevill for her, but I cant get her; and I fear the thing is so fix that the law gives her to him. But there was to much hurry to get her. Her father was hardly cold. If this had happened with some other white man, I suppose Mr Bevill would