This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/EBB.2ACE/2601.1.1 Message Board Post: Thank you for your reply. The papers were actually for the children to be apprenticed out. It happened on 6 Jan 1864, I guess after Martha Hicks married Presley Cottrell. Where did you find the info about Elizabeth being Allen's dau.? Stella