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C.R. & AL

Robeson Cty Jan 30th 1868

General

Your letter of the 25th inst came to hand day before yesterday and I hasten to reply though very unwell scarcely able to sit up. The woman Alice Pelletier as she has always been called for last ten or fifteen years, that now calls herself Scott. Has told you a falsehood. She knows the two boys were bound to me. They were first bound by an agent of the Beauro, after that I think in 1866 they were bound by the County Court of this Cty. without their being in Court or notice being given as was required in a case that I was concerned in that went to the Supreme Court. After that decision I had a regular notice served on a man named George Scott who has some time had Alice as wife and on Alice herself that was last Jobs Court in this County that I should apply to have the boys bound George & Alice could have attended Court, but did not do so and the boys were in Court. Judge Shepard who is a good lawyer attended to the matter and had the whole thing done according to the desecsion of the Supreme Court. That is the ground on which I hold the two boys. George & Alice and the boys have all been on this place since May 1862, until some time before Christmas, they left here to go to Wilmington and George said he would return and go to work