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MR. EDITOR - I wish to inquire for my people, left in Missouri. My father was George, Mother Catherine. They lived in Madison county, and belonged to Burell Porter. I had two brothers, James and John. I had one sister who fell out of sister Mary Ann's lap into the fire and burned one of her eyes. Her name was Bettie. Mother and all but two children were sold to Mr. Highhill. Father belonged to Mr. Benard, who kept a still five miles from Frederick town. Father's sister was Phoebe, and her husband Allison; he went to California with his young master. I belonged to Mrs. M.Berryman, and was then a small lad. Her father was Mr. M. Patton. This was in 1850 or 1851. Mrs. Berryman swapped with her mother for another boy named Charles, and carried me to St. Louis and sold me to traders, and they brought me to Texas. I live in Fort Bend county. Write me, in care of Rev. Geo. W. Norris, Houston, Texas. ALLISON WASHINGTON.