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Opelika Alabama 
April 7th 1867.

Maj. Genl. Wager Swayne,
Commdg Dist. of Ala.
Montgomery

General
I address you this communication, at the request and dictation of Adeline Price a Freedwoman of this County, to call your attention to a state of fact relative to herself, and her children, by which she complains of a grievous wrong, and earnestly requests of you, a measure of relief which has been deemed her by the Courts
Adeline Price at the time of emancipation in Ala, was held, together with her three children Matilda, Emily, and Bayless Alexander, as the property of Mr John R Price of Chambers County in this State, with whom they remained until about the first of January 1866. About the 10th of December 1865, John R. Price commenced his intention of having these three children, none of whom were over 12 years of age, bound as apprentices to him: and in pursuance of this intention, and against the repeated request and remembrance of Adeline, he had them fully bound to him, the boy till 21 years of Age, and the girls till 18, by Hon Phil Harper Judge of Probate of Chambers County

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