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Lime Creek
Bullock County 
State of Alabama
May 29th 1868

[[stamp]] The National Archives of the United States [[/stamp]]

To Capt HM Bush Supt of Education

Sir
I have the honor of making application for Transportation from this County to the County of Franklin in the state of Masachusets which is the place of my home and nativity

The grounds of the above application are these. I came to Alabama and took charge of a school on the farm of [[strikethrough]] Col JC [[/strikethrough]] JC Mitchell in said county and state for the freedmen in January 1867  My night and day scholars made over forty - After teaching for two months the government took charge of my school and paid me until the 1st day of August of said year. I taught the month of August expecting to be paid by the government Capt. Buckley so promised but did not comply — On the 1st of Sept, I received information that the government would keep up the school no longer — so I continued the school until the present time exhausting all the means the government had paid me up to the 1st of August 1867 — Under these circumstances I called on