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I have seven brothers and one sister. I left them in Granville county, North Carolina in 1839. We all belonged to a lawyer named Abraham Venable. Mother was named Pinkey and father Joshua. My brothers were Monroe, Addison, William, Dock, Alexander and David Russell, and sister was named Julia Smiley; she was named after a northern school teacher. I married Agnes Channellton, at Mr. K. D. Channellton's, in 1837. Our first shild was named Pinkey. Then we moved from Randolph to Cheatham co., North Carolina. Our young mistress married Jackson Gilmore and carried us there. My sons are named William Monroe, Razamus Oglby, and Alvis Cross. We were the then sold to to a spectator. My wife and I left our children in Moore county, North Carolina, and went back to Randolph county in 1844, and lived with a man named Billy Lamfens. There was born of us sons named Josiah Greenberry and Cokery Clark; one aughter named Julia Ana Phancillar; another son, named Postilla, who died. We were sold again to a speculator by the name of Spruce McCurry, in Lexington, Davidson county, North Carolina. When the old white people died the estate divided and Greenbury, my son, fell to Mr. Aroy Lawfens, who sold him to Mr. Jerry Addison, a speuclar, a partner of McCarry; there was partner with McCarry and Addison, named Add March; these men carried off my son Greenbury and sold him in Memphis, Tenn. The last I heard of him he was in the army and was discharged. My name was Alfred Venable when I lived in Granville county, North Carolina. I now go by the name Alfred Yancey. Pastors will please read this to their congregations. Address Alfred Yancy, Yazoo City, Miss., or Rev. C. L. Crump, Benton, Miss.