Freedmen's Bureau Records: S. McDonnald to Thomas P.
Jackson, May 16, 1867
Summary:
McDonnald writes to contest a claim that he refused to convey a girl in his care
to her friends in Augusta County, stating that the girl did not wish to go and
wished to remain with him.
Bureau Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands
Sub District
Augusta & Highland
Mr. Th
os
P Jackson
May 16th 1867
Harrison County West Virginia
Dear Sir
I received a note stating (as had been reported to you concerning a little Negro girl) that I have taken care for, that I demured letting her friends have her this day I had an opportunity to convey her to Augusta but she the little Negro says that she did not wish to leave me at this time her friends can have her at any time she is perfectly satisfied the agreement does not bind me to take her to Augusta unless she was dissatisfied.
yours very Respectfully
S. McDonnald
[Written in a different hand] "Test: Strother Chasslen, the negro look well please take notice of this"
