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Robeson Cty N.C. June 18th 1867
Genl Allan Rutherford
Dr Sir, 
When in Wilmington in April last I called at your office, and had an interview with you on the subject of some of the Freedmen that have made a contract to labour for me the present year and a part of whom had left my service without any known cause whatever. I have had about sixty working hands under contract this year a considerable portion of them were with me last year and I thought were well satisfied and doing much better than last year. I pay higher wages than any one in the neighborhood that I know of. Since these persons had left when I saw you in April a part of them returned of their own accord, the others were so indifferent I did not care to have them back. I requested you to give me authority to take those who had left back and you replied that you would do so, but you had sent an agent to Lumberton and you would write him on the subject which he wrote me you had done; this was some time past, and Mr Burnie wrote and asked me to call