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Sub Dist making the statement that as soon as the Military left they were abused and found it uncomfortable remaining in their old neighborhoods and they come to Winchester where they could feel safe and that they will return when the Soldiers go there again. Some have come with the Story that they had been told by their Former Masters that they must leave and go to the Yankees that they had freed them and must take care of them.
I have investigated one case of the kind and have ascertained beyond a doubt that a Mr Jacob Price who lives about a mile from New Market in Shenandoah County did send his former servant Araminta Barelay to Winchester on the Stage and had her left at the door of the guard House on Main Street with her Infant about one year old and that he did tell her "that those that freed the Niggers must take care of them," the woman is young and healthy and willing to work I have procured a place for her and issue one Ration for the support of her child until