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Whitesville North Carolina
October 13th 1868

Colonel Rutherford
Dear Sir.
   A freedwoman named Effy Caroline Gore had two of her daughters 12 & 14 years old bound to J. M. M. Gore by some of the U.S. Officers_ She is dead & her friends wish the girls bound to other persons_ Mr. Gore is willing to give them up provided he can get his bond returned to him_ I have been requested by a brother of the deceased to procure if I could the surrender of said bond so that the girls could be bound to some more suitable persons.  They are named Kitty Ann & Judy_ Please inform me what can be done in the premises & oblige yours &c
J. A. Maultsby