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It will be seen that the apprentices above named ranged from 8 to 20 years of age.

Jiles, Henry & Joe, the three oldest, he promised to pay $50 each - but a neighbour informed me in January when I was out there that the negroes were afraid of King, for King told them that they were "bound to him" & he would bring them anyhow.  I know King's reputation as a master & know that he was a terror to slaves

The children in whom I feel the deepest interest are the two youngest, Lawson and Patsy  Their mother "Aggie" was a faithful servant of the man King, worked her time out faithfully, and because she would not hire to him the next year, he instigated a malicious prosecution for Bigamy, to which a recently enacted ordinance of the Ala convention subjected her.  I was her counsel at the trial & know that the prosecution was malicious, which fact enabled me no little in acquitting her.  King had then her two children, Lawson and Patsy apprenticed to him.  Hearing that King was going to move to Texas, Aggie stole her children away from him and tried to make her escape to a Bureau office at