Viewing page 191 of 343

This transcription has been completed. Contact us with corrections.

To Saml. Thomas Asst. Comr. of Freedmen, Refugees & Abandoned Lands for the State of Mississippi

The Petitioner William Earhart of the County of Adams, in said State shows that he is the Owner of a small Real Estate in the town of Washington in said County viz being part of Lots Number One and two in Square number six of the plan of said town of Washington as will appeared by Certified Abstract of Deed from Benjamin S. Davenport to Petitioner dated Oct. 6th 1862 recorded in Book N.N. page 346 of The Deed Records of said County of Adams marked No 1. This petitioner's family ocupied said property for some time previous to the ocupation of the City of Natchez by the United States forces. Said petitioner states that he moved out of said property with the purpose of getting into the Federal lines moved to Natchez where he has been living ever since. In consequence of his removal from said property when the Freedmen were removed to said Town of Washington, it was seized as abandoned property and is now ocupied by U.S. Quartermaster.

This petitioner states that he was never in any Civil or Military Service in any of the seceeding States or in the So Called Confederate Government, and that he has taken the Oath of Allegience under the Proclamation of the late Prest. Lincoln and of His Excellency Andrew Johnson Copies of which are hereto attached marked A. & B. and made a part of this petition.

These premises considered the petitioner respectfully asks that said property be returned to him and the same stricken from the Books.