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[[left margin]] Horton Branch [[/left margin]]

Liberty Jan 19th 1866

Gen'l Kiddoo.
C.R.F. & A.L.

I have a son named Soffan Chapman about eighteen years old who, (as Maj Mayer S.A.C, R.F. & A.L. says) made a contract with Maj S. F Fontaine a Citizen of this place. If the boy did this, which he positively denies I request you as his mother to release him from the contract, which Maj Mayer refuses to do on account of his size, but I can bring proof if requisite of his age. Maj Fontaine claims him on the ground of having made Soffan advances on his wages, but this was done before he had completed his Contract from 1866, which terminated the 11 inst. and consequently all that he received was on the wages due from last year.

I can prove by a credible witness that Maj Fontaine had no written agreement with him for 1867, but Maj Mayers asserts that he has. Soffan denies even a verbal promise 

I am unwilling for my son to live with Maj Fontaine for he and his brothers beat a Colored man nearly to death last summer and no notice was taken of it by the Bureau

By attending to this you will oblige a poor Colored woman.
Sarah Cook  her X mark

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