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Dipow Mill Marengo Co April 22d 1867 Genl Swayne } Montgomery [[stamp]]THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF THE UNITED STATES [[/stamp]] Dr Sir There are three apprenticed children in this section, whose case I will now bring before you in as short way as possible. They were "bound" last Dec in a few hours after their mothers death,- they have an Uncle & Aunt who are doing well as freedmen and they have very feeling & appealed to to me to try and have these children released & as they are now in worse slave ry than they ever were. This I firmly believe my-self - They say these children are not permitted to visit any one, not even them (I mean the Uncle and Aunt) and are closely & watched all the time to keep them from running away, and that on one occasion when two of them did leave they were severly whip ped . The above facts, I call your attention to and ask in behalf of these freemen that the child be released from their present servitude and return to their relatives who are not only willing, but able to support them - even better than Moore who appren tice them - Their respective ages are 13,11,9 as learned from their relatives and are self supporting names of children Richmond Nancy and Allen apprenticed by Cornelius Moore, their former owners by Respy O.P. Slater
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