Freedmen's Bureau Records: W. Storer How to R. S.
Lacey, November 10, 1865
Summary:
How contacts Lacey, asking him to find a man named MacRichardson who kidnapped a
free black woman and her children from Franklin County, Pennsylvania in
1864.
Captain R. S. Lacey Assistant Quartermaster
Superintendent Seventh District
Lynchburg,
Virginia
November 10th 1865
Winchester, Virginia
Captain
A man named MacRichardson is charged with having forcibly taken a freedwoman & (3) three children from near Greencastle Pennsylvania in July 1864, and with delivering them to one Madison Leary, living near this place, who is said to have sold them as his Learys slave, and I am directed by Colonel Brown to act & respond.
Having just learned that MacRichardson is living in Bedford County I have respectfully to request that you will ascertain and inform me if he did thus take Eliza [unclear: Alesouth] and her three children and what was done with them.
I am &c
W.S.How
Captain &c
