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June 1 1867

Moses I. Stone

Colored man lives on Road to Lowndesboro 14 miles from Montgomery
Applies to have cancelled indentures of apprenticeship of a boy Eli and girl Linda 15, with Robert Russell [[strikethrough]] near [[/strikethrough]] on road from Lowndesboro to Hayneville, apprenticed by Judge Graham [[strikethrough]] Lt [[/strikethrough]] Lowndes Co.

These children and two younger were slaves to Russell who drove them all away after Emancipation. They are orphan children of Stone's niece, (Minerva Russell) father also dead - took small pox. Russell sent him to gin house where he took cold and died. Stone took in all four children & kept them about [[strikethrough]] six months [[/strikethrough]] two weeks, and then the older sister of the little boy, not one of the four, took him on a visit to her house. The girl was working with the houses, when Mr Russell came six months after sending them off and claimed both as his apprentices and took them away. He says that they get no schooling, though Mr Russell lives a little more than a mile from a Freedman's school, and he learns