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JANE ~RRINGTO~
84 ďears old
302 Fowle Street
Raleigh, N. C.


	It1 ort to be able to tell surirpin cause liNus twelve years old when dey had de surrender right tip here in Raleigh. If I live to see dis coming December 1 will be eighty five years old. I was born on the 18th of December 1852.

	ni belonged to Jackson May of Nash County. I wus born on de plantation near Tar River. Jackson May never married until I wus of a great big girl. He owned a lot of slaves; dere were eighty on de plantation before de surrender. He married Miss Becky Wilder, sister of Sam Wilder. De Wilders lived on a jining pl~tation to where I wus borned.

	“Jackson May had so many niggers he let Billy Williams who had a plantation nearby have part of tern. Marster Jackson he raised my father and bought my mother .

mother wus named LouisaMay, and r~ father wus named Louis ~May~~ Ii~~ mother had sIx chilluns, four boys and two girls. The boys were Richerd ‚ FarPo ‚ • Caeser, and Fenner • De girls Rose and Jane • Jane ‚ dats me.

	“We lived in log houses with stick an‘ dirt chirnleys. They cafled ~ the slave houses. We had chicken feather.