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NARA 788

Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Ab'd Lands
Office Asst Supt Sub District of Goldsboro
Goldsboro NC May 1st 1867

Council Best Esq
Goldsboro N.C.

Sir,
Hanna Hay makes complaint at this office, that you have her two children Martha & Julia & refuse to give them up. She says that they are bound to you without her consent. Please send a statement of the facts to this Office to enable me to decide the case.

Very Respectfully
Your obdt servant
H.D. Norton
Capt. V.R.C. & Bvt. Maj. US vols
Asst Supt B. of R.F. & Lds 

L.B. page 34.