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North Carolina
Catawba County

To the Commandant of the Freedmans Bureau
Salisbury, N.C.

I have the honor to ask instructions in the following case.  Among the negroes of the Estate of Mahala Sherrill deceased of which I am Executor, there is an Idiot a girl of some 20 years old totally incapable of taking care of herself and has been fed and clothed by me as executor of said child
this Time, but the heirs object to the Estate being longer [[?]] with her support. She has a Father also of the Slaves of said Estate, who has been working for himself since April last without contributing to the support of his said Idiotic child.  We would therefore respectfully ask if the Father is not the propper person to maintain her he is able bodied, and that you issue such orders as will releive the Estate aforesaid from the maintainance of the said Idiot.  The name of the Idiot is Martha living in this County - Catawba