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[[right margin]] H. 5. Vol2 OAC 1867  [[/right margin]]

you must excused my badly riten letter

Newton City Ga Mar General Tillson General Picket a fue lines to eather one of you that is now in comand of the military authority of the United State on the Freedman burough General Dean Sines , I a vail my self with the opportunity of writting you a fue lines for protecttion if it is in your power to grant it to one that is in great distress I now will state the case of my husbin he has got in to a scrape a bout som horses in Newton City Ga he is charge of steelling a cupel of horses and tha have got him confind in Newton County Jail and haved had him confind ever senc last Octtober and Mr, A. N. Allen my husbin who is now in his 76 yeare of age is now charge with this crime and he ses he is cleane of the charge and stands furm to it that he traded for them from a freedman But the freedman has gon to som furun state and my husbin [[strikethrough]] in [[/strikethrough]] is confind in Jail so as he cant git to make a showing and tha is a cuppel of fredman in Jail with him that wold like to have som mursey shown to thine relife if it cold bee posable Deare Sirs my husbin is now lived to bee a late age and I think it the Determination to hang my husbin if he cant get som protection from tha unitedstates authority he has sufard a great deal sence tha have had him in prison and it is for