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Hon Oliver Dockery
Dear sir Permit us to respectfully solicit your aid in obtaining the money which Gen Howard authorized Dr H.C. Vogell to expend in this County. We petitioned for 2500, but they only granted us 2000, we hope you will see the propriety of this appropriation being made in the section where we have purchased and paid for the land  8 1/4 Acres. There are about 550 colored children within 4 or 5 miles of that location. I would have met you myself only I am one of the [[?]] and cannot leave Lumberton Dec 1 1869
James Oxendine