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Harris County Ga Dec 12/65
Williams Hiram D.

[[stamp]] THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF THE UNITED STATES [[/stamp]]

acknowledges receipt of appointment of agent of Bureau R.F. & A.L. for the County of Harris Ga requests instruction what to do in cases for Freedmen leave their Wife & marries other Women, leaving his former Wife & Children entirely destitute also of Some excitement in the County about an incerrection but Capt. Newton had several of them [[?]] punished.

Rec' O A A C Dec 18/65

Transcription Notes:
insurrection misspelled here and in the letter as INCERRECTION.