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Moorefield March 7th 1866

My Dear Sir
I wish to ask your assistance in procuring from the Freedman's Bureau at Winchester (if it can be done) transportation for a family of negroes, that is a freedwoman & her children from this place to Baltimore. The facts are these. Her husband was sold & sent to Louisiana prior to the war & when situated in the prossess of the contest, he went by sea to Boston. In the early part of last summer he wrote me relative to his family. I replied, informing him concerning them, & telling him that if he desired he could return to them, or he could have hem & remove them North. He cane the last of September and remained until the early part of November. He was unable to get a house, and to make such arrangements as he wished. I was not able to make provision for him, having no vacant house, & it did not suit me to employ him in my household. He concluded to return to the North & to leave his family with me until this Spring. Some weeks ago I wrote to know his wishes & purposes in regard to his family, and in reply he requests me to send his family to Baltimore, from which point he will be able to pay their expenses to Massachusetts where he is residing. I have this from a reliable gentleman with whom the Freedman has lived ever since he went North (more than a year). The family consists of his wife and seven children, 3 of them over 12 years of age, the youngest a grandchild an infant, whole number eight persons. The family is one which, whilst it has rendered some service to me, has yet been of such a character