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out that she was willing to leave where she was, he went to the place after night, and brought her away; she said "it was the first she had ever heard that the negro was free."
An old freedman who had engaged, himself and family to work for a gentleman in a neighboring county, one of his family was a young girl, which the employer became attached, as results proved, inside of the year she brought forth a child, some days probably weeks were lost by her from her work, all of which the employer proposed to deduct in the settlement. The old man thinking it a hard case, enquired of Cap White, Sub Ast Comr. of the Bureau at this place if it was just, that he should loose it. He was instructed to go back to the gentlemen with the captains complements, requesting him to settle with the old man without deducting the lost time alluded too.

Respectfully submitted
I am
Respectfully you ob svt
Jacob R Davis
Agent F. Bureau
Richmond County
Georgia