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spoken of its existence, whereupon he was seized by the next of kin and sent south and sold, coupled with the condition that he was never to return. The estate of Col B. was immense and if the present whereabouts of this man Washington can be learned, and his presence here obtained, it will be of immense advantage to him and other colored persons who have long been denied their rights under this will destroyed or suppressed as above stated.
The last certain intelligence I can gain of him is where he was sold to Hunter. I have written to parties in Conecuh but can receive no reply. I have learned from a colored man, who was a fellow servant of his while he belonged to Stone, that he thought he heard of Washington during the late war in Texas, but I have written to Texas and can hear nothing. Knowing that the Bureau over which you preside is designed expressly to secure colored men in their rights and that you have peculiar facilities for finding the whereabouts of such of this unfortunate class as have in years past been torn from their homes and families, I have been induced confidentially to appeal to you to assist me through to your subordinates in Conecuh County in finding this man if living or if dead or sold during the existene of slavery to some other section, the fact that he is dead or the section of country to which