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	“My father *as Bas Van Hook and he niarried Mary Angel,. ray mother. Mother was born on Marse Dillard. Love‘s plantation, and. when his daughter, Miss Jenny, married Marse Thomas An~el‘s son, Marse Dillard gave Mother to Miss ~Tenny and when Little Miss ïenny Angel was born, Mother was her nurse. Marse Thomas and Miss renny Angel died, and ~other stayed right there keeping house for Little Miss Jenny and looking after her. Mother had more sense than all the rest ot the slaves put together, and she even did Little Miss Jenny‘s shopping.

	.	“My tather was the only darkey Old Man Isaac Van Hook owned, and he did anything that cerne to hand: he was a good carpenter and mechanic and helped the Van Hooks to build mills, and he made the shoes for that settlement. Thomas Aaron, George, Tarnes, Claude, and Washington were my five brothers, and my sisters were Zelia, Elizabeth, and Candace. Why, Miss, the only thing I can remember right off hand that we children done was fight 8nd frolic like youngsters ~‘;ill do when they get together. With time to put my mind on it, I would probably recollect our games and songs, if we had any. ‚

	“Our quarters was on a large farm on sugar Fork River. The houses were wuat you would call log huts and they were scattered about promiscuously, no regular lay-out, just built wherever they happened to find a good spring convenient. There was never but one room to a hut, and they w~rn‘t particular about how niany darkies they put in a room.

	“White folks had tine four-poster beds with a

frame built around the top of the bed, and over the frame