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Tarboro, N.C. Feb. 12th 1867.

Capt. 

Dear Sir.

A freedman by the name of Jim Shirley contracted to live with me this year and cultivate a two horse crop. Today he left me & has gon to one of my neighbors without any cause so far as I know. He alledged as a reason when he told of his intention, that his wife and two grown daughters who were to farm with him, had been offered a very large price to cook & attend a hotel in Williamston where she came from, but he has since bind himself to Nathan Pippin -

He has put me to great expense & trouble, moving, assisting him to do so, a house for his sole use, at a location on the farm of his own selection - He leaves me with two mules unemployed -

Will you please investigate this case - when everything can be explained on both sides - I have no written contract, but can prove the exisence of one by abundance verbal evidence, white & colored -

Yours respectfully
F.M. Charles

I live four miles from Tarboro on Calvin Jone's farm