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The State of Alabama} 
Lee County}

Before me Spencer M. Graysen an acting Justice of the Peace for said county, personally came Hamp Pollard, who is known to me, and who being duly sworn says that he intermarried with Eliza Moore about 1863 according to the then usage and custom of colored people which was so known and recognized by the neighborhood, and that after the surrender of the late armies in rebellion, he obtained license from Capt. [[?]], Commandant of late at Tuskegee, and was again married to the said Eliza. That the said Eliza had at the time of his marriage [[strikethrough]] with [[/strikethrough]] two boy children by the names of Jack and Jordan—and that Jos. S. Moore of the town of Auburn of said county without notice to or knowledge of this affiant went to Tuskegee and alleges that he there had the said children bound unto him until they reach their legal maturity. Affiant further swears that the said children ought not to have been bound as aforesaid without his knowledge or the knowledge of the said Eliza, as affiant says they were. Affiant further says that such binding was contrary to law because the said children were able bodied and well calcu-

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