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MR. EDITOR : A young colored man named Geo. Washington has been engaged as a butler in our family for the last two years. He, with his parents, sisters and brothers were formerly slaves and owned by one Wm. Patterson a planter and lawyer in the parish of East Feliciana. In 1867 he came North, and the other members of his family went to Baton Rouge, since that time he has lost all trace of them, though having frequetly written. He is now anxious to find his long lost parents, brothers and sisters. May I invoke your knindly Christian aid in his behalf. Parent's names; George and Rachel. Broth- ers'; Daniel, John, Isaac and Jesse. Sisters; Jane. Lucy, and Louise. While slaves they were known by their owners name, Patterson. Yours truly, S. D. RIPLEY. 5 West 37th St. New York.