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Indentures of Colored Orphans


 
1866
Date        Indentured                 Age            Term         Residence              Guardian                  Guardian's Residence

May 1    Lucinda Burns       12 yrs old         6 yrs        Hinds Co., MS        Richard Jones (col)          Warren Co., MS
(daughter of James and Rachael Burns, both deceased and formerly of Hinds County, Mississippi)

May 5     Emma Watson       12 yrs old         6 yrs        Hinds Co., MS        Flora L. Kelly                   Warren Co., MS
 
 
 
 
 

Source: Records of the Assistant Commissioner For the State of Mississippi
Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands, 1865 - 1869
National Archives Microfilm Publication M826, Roll 42
Registers of Indentures of Colored Orphans Aug. 1865 - May 1866 

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