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NARA 553
Sampson Co. N.C.
Feb. 12th 1867

Maj H.H. Foster
Bureau R.F. A. L. 
Magnolia N.C }

Major
Your very courteous communication with regard to certain allegations made against me before the Bureau officials at Wilmington by a Freedman calling himself Clayborn Robinson has been received and I embrace this opportunity of responding to your inquiries as well as I may be able.

I have a girl bound to me by the County authorities named Mary whose mother belonged to my father in law Mr. Jas. Murphy and whose reputed father belonged to David S. Matthews My wife took the girl Mary at her mother's death when she was about five (5) years old and had no one to provide for her wants her mother was a favorite servant and she was taken more out of pity than from any hope of remuneration or reward

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