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Goldsboro' N.C. Oct 25th 1865 Col Whittlesey Chief of Freedmens Bureau &c Sir: Will you be kind enough to listen to the following statement and give me your advice on the subject? About a year or more before the late was commenced I bought at an equity sale a piece of land in Washington County — have not paid for it and consequently have received no title for it. After the federal forces came to Plymouth the county seat of Washington Co finding that I would lose my slave property I removed them to the interior of the state and afterwards went into the Confederate service as an Assistant Surgeon. After I went into service Mr E. H. Willis of Plymouth acting as Local Agent of the U.S. Treasury Department turned over this land to the U. S. Government, as he says from instructions from the Secretary of the Treasury and by authority of a confiscation law passed by the U. S. Congress in 1862. I have taken the following oath: I Edward B. Haughton of Edgecombe County, State of North Carolina, do solemnly swear or affirm in presence of Almighty God, that I will henceforth faithfully support, protect & defend the Constitution of the United States and the Union of the States thereunder; and that I will, in like manner,
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