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The State of Alabama
Choctaw County

Personally come before me W. Bailey Judge of Probate for said county, Randall Sheffield a freedman and Nancy a freedwoman, his wife, who being sworn Depose & say that they reside in said County and have so resided in said County and have so resided therein about 17 years, and have lived on the premises of Dr. John T. Foster during the most of the time, that they are acquainted with Moses Davis, a freedman, and have known Moses from October 1857. That he lived also on the premises of Dr. John F. Foster since that time, & up to August 1865, they also know a freed boy by the name of "John Bell" now living also with Dr. Jno. T. Foster, and has been apprenticed by the Probate Court to said Jno. T. Foster. The said boy is the child