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The State of Alabama
Choctaw County

Before me Mr. W Bailey Judge of Probate of Said County Elizabeth A. Rodgers who being by me first duly sworn deposes and says that she resides in Butler Choctaw county Alabama and has done so ever since the town was [[?]]; that she is well acquainted with Dr. John T. Foster and his family and has been a consistent visitor of the family seen their Residence in Butler, since nine or ten years, perhaps nine. That she has known the freed boy "John Bell" who is in controversy between Dr. John T. Foster, and the freed man "Moses Davis" also claims to be the father of said Boy John Bell; that she knew the freed woman "Ellen" the mother of John Bell well both before the birth of said John Bell and after. 
She further says that the freedman Moses Davis never claimed the woman Ellen for a wife nor did Ellen ever recognize Moses as her husband. 
That the wife of said Moses, was named Ann. 
That Moses & Ann were living together as husband and wife at least Eighteen months before the boy "John Bell" was born. 
That the woman Ellen on several occasions at her house denied that Moses was the father of her child; that on one  occasion when the woman Ellen was at