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Bureau Refugees Freedmen & A.L
Office Sub Dist Eastern Shore Va
Drummondtown Va January 1st 1867

Gen S. C. Armstrong
Supt 5th Dist Va

General 
I respectfully request instructions in the following case. In 1859, their Parents being dead, the County Court bound out until they attained the age of 21 years, 4 Free born Colored Children. Their Grand Mother wishes to take the Children from the persons to whom they were indentured but they refuse to Surrender them to her. Are these "Indentures" regarded as legal by the Bureau, & if not what course is to be pursued to have them annulled

Very respectfully
Your obt Servt
Ed Murphy
1st Lieut 16th Regt V.R.C
Asst Supt

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