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Christian Co., Ky.
May - .

Gen D. S. Hays,
Supt,
Freedmen's Bureau A. Lands, &c,

Dear Sir:
It seems, from a communication you forwarded my father and myself, that we have in our employ, a freedboy, who is a runaway from his parents in the State of Virginia. Ambrose Watkins is the name of said boy.

Gen, Before I contracted with the boy in Va. I went with him, before the Supt. and Agt. of Bureau for the District, in which he lived (Ambrose Watkins) to ascertain whether he was encumbered with any contract, or other impediment that would interfere with my employing him. 

Being assured by Col. John W. Jordan, Agt. and Supt. for the Counties of Prince Edward, Cumberland &c, that no impediment

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