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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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