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Also aboard was the slave who had aided in the robbery. They asked her what she wanted to do with him.
Tartly she replied, "Since you seem to be doing all this fighting for his kind, you can keep him so far as I'm concernedi" And with that she rowed back to shore triumphantly with her family
by
Robert E. Byrd
Soon to be available is a book on the Byrd family which is a collection of genealogical data about some of the descendants of John Byrd and Rebecca Sutton of Chowan County, North Carolina, through their son William Byrd, Sr. of Chowan, Bertie and Deplin Counties, North Carolina, and Sumter District, South Caroline.
Most of the data in this book concerns the Mississippi descendants of John and Rebecca Sutton Byrd.
The data was collected by the late Robert E. Byrd of Jackson, Mississippi. The book contains 340 pages (including a 57 page index) and is bound in a hardback cover. The price will be $10. per copy.
If you would like a copy please write:	Martha	Byrd,	695	South
Nardo, Apt. G, Solana Beach, California 92075.