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[[stamp]] THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF THE UNITED STATES [[/stamp]]

grandchildren from their grandparents and had them bound out as orphans without friends, and generally at ages from three to four years younger than they really are.  I restored one boy to his grandfather who had been apprenticed as twelve years old, who was a least fifteen, a gentleman who stood by, offered the grandfather $50.00/100 for his services for one year, yet he had been apprenticed to learn the "mystery & act of farming," and when twenty one, was to receive the same amount, and two suits of clothes.  I have summons that ought to be served but the police are not here to do it, and I am obliged to wait their motion. 

(Yesterday a freedman came to me, who had taken a notice to a man to appear here and settle with him.  The notice had been given him by the Citizen Agent, while I was absent in Petersburg on business.  he took the Freedman by the collar and dragged him down to the pines to whip him, he broke away and ran, when the brute fired three shots at him with his revolver, one ball passing through the collar of his coat. Wanted him to go

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