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Roanoke Island, North Carolina, November 5th, 1866. Maj. Gen. O. O. Howard, Comm'r, Bureau Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands - General: I respectfully ask that you restore to me sixteen acres land, situate on Roanoke Island, and now occupied by freedmen. I will not trouble you, General, with a lengthy petition. You know how the citizens of this island are situated. When the government made of Roanoke a place of refuge, and apportioned among the freedmen many acres of land, these people cut most of the timber, to build houses, thus leaving but little firewood. Of that remaining, the freedmen continue to use _ Until the land shall have been restored to me, I shall have my wood cut without pay, and receive no rent. Most respectfully, Nancy her X mark Gaylord
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