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Said Jones claims I believe to have had the children apprenticed to him by an officer of this Bureau at Raleigh in 1865.
On the 4th inst. Sd Treecy called at this office three of Sd children - Anna, Fanny, & Edmund, aged respectively 16, 17, & 19 and stating that Mr. Jones had moved to Arkansas and left them in an abandoned way, asked if she could keep them There bring no other friend or relative in this vicinity. I told her as "next of kin, she could  and quite recently Mr. Jones (Sd Treecy states) has turned up & with hands and rope bound and carried off to Haywood these three. Said Stephen Johnson & Toddy Sanders claim two of Sd children as their nearest kin in N.C. Their mother having been sold and carried off in 1864.
As I suppose Mr Jones has no right to carry these children out of North Carolina. though they are apprenticed - I have directed the complaints to visit the Officer at Pittsboro Chatham Co. hoping you may be pleased to cause Lieut Thompson Asst. Supt. for Sub - dist Chatham Co. to investigate this case and secure to these freedpeople their rights proper
I am Colonel
Your ob'dt Srvt
J. F. Curren
2'd Lt. V.R.C.
Bvt. Capt. & Asst. Supt. 

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