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NARA 556

was attached to her mother and says that she will keep her and train her up as well as she can for future usefulness and she's well satisfied that it will be far better for her than to be raised up under such influences and examples as her father would let. The girl too wishes to remain with us and so wishing she was bound by the Court of the County until she would be twenty one years of age These Major are about the facts in the case I have half dozen boys and girls about the same size and age of the girl Mary that are not bound in any way but are only too willing to remain and be fed. I have all the time so many as I want & sometimes more, Mary is all the one I ever wanted or asked to have bound and that was as before stated my wife's kind feeling & attachment to the family
I remain Major Very Truly & Sincerely Yours 
C.T. Murphy

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