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Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen & Abandoned Lands.
Head Quarters, Asst. Commissioner, State of Virginia.
RICHMOND, VA., January 31st, 1866.

Statement of William Brown (Colored) Hanover County, Va.

Was sold from Middlesex County, Va, three years ago, last September, and left five children at Mortimore Evins', or Evans', near Jamaica Post Office in said County. The mother of these children was given to another man, soon after he was sold.

Brown was there in November, Evins wanted the children bound to him, Brown would not give his consent — (as the children did not want to stay at Evins') — He promised to call for them on the 1st, Jan'y, and take them away: — bad weather prevented him from going for them.

Brown found out that after he left, Evins went to Tappahannock and had the children "bound to the mother and then bound to him until they were 21 years old," by the Clerk of the Court.

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