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a fair price by the year for him or if she will bind him to me until he is twenty one I will teach him to read & write and when free will give him $150-- this boy wants to stay with me & I submit to you if it is proper to take him from me with an mention prospect of support and rear age. 
I write this letter at the suggestion of Capt Connolly - who thinks that you can probably arrange the matter for me 
Respectfully
Gen  H Ray 
P.s. address me, Rev Geo. H Ray Burksville Va

[[Left Margin]]Mine are other partner in regard to him now 
 R.56.R.F.&.A.L. DofP. 1st Vol. 1867[[/Left Margin]]

[[Right Margin]]] Gen'l Brown Mis  enter & return to Spenser[[/Right Margin]]

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