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Affidavit of John M. Fennell
Dick Fennell freedman was formerly my slave. He was born on my plantation and was always my slave until freed by the Government. He is now twenty years of age. I kept a record of all the people born on my plantation. He worked for me from about the 1st of May 1860 until about the 1st of Nov 1865. he left before the crop was all gathered. His mother lived on my plantation, during the year 1865. She was an invalid from July until December and my family attended to her meals and the bill of the Physician. I paid from my own pocket. I made an agreement with the mother for the service of Dick as he was under age. The agreement was made before she was taken sick. She had three children too small to work that I maintained. The family left the plantation at Christmas. When they left I gave the mother seventeen bushels of corn besides potatoes and meat. The family owe me $180 for care and board of children and nursing and cost of medical attendance upon the mother during the year 1865.  

Duplin County} John M Fennell
North Carolina} 
Personally appeared before me a magistrate of the County & State aforesaid the above named John M Fennell and make oath the above statement is correct. 
June 11th 1866
MK Deanne JP