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Lucy Ross writing to Freedmen's Bureau's O.O. Howard to get her children released from former enslaver

Lucy Ross to General O.O. Howard, letter, October 31, 1866, Registers and Letters Received by the Commissioner of the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865–1872, Letters Received, Entered in Register 8, R, Aug-Dec. 1866. NMAAHC.FB.M752.

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October 31, 1866

Shack Partee searching for their mother Hagar and father Richard

Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)

June 5, 1879

Benj. Motte searching for unnamed child on behalf of the child's mother

The Herald of the Union (Wilmington, NC)

March 23, 1865

Geo. L. Mabson searching for George Smith

Evening Post (Wilmington, NC)

December 24, 1873

Chloa Dickinson looking for her son Victor Franklin

The Norfolk Post (Norfolk, VA)

August 23, 1865

Ruben Hartthorn looking for his son Stepney Hartthorn

The Loyal Georgian (Augusta, GA)

February 24, 1866

Julia Ann Page searching for her mother Mora Jackson (formerly Mora Page)

The Richmond Planet (Richmond, VA)

August 31, 1895

W. J. Jordan searching for his uncle Platt Jordan

The Christian Recorder (Philadelphia, PA)

June 14, 1883