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rebellion, but that the same has always remained in his own possession or in that of his lessees and agents, except as above stated when in the possession of the Government, and that he removed his family to the said plantation only to enable him the better to support them, both by the rents of his aforesaid property in town, and by his labor on the plantation.

Your Petitioner further represents that he is, and has been, during the rebellion, loyal to the Government of the United States, and has never, by any act of his own, forfeited his rights and privileges as a citizen thereof - that, for a long time previous to the outbreak of the rebellion, he was engaged here in business as a Merchant [[crossed out]]Tailor[[/crossed out]] and was largely indebted to northern merchants for goods - that, when the so-called Confederate States proposed the confiscation of all property and debts of northern men, he sold out his stock and paid to his northern creditors every dollar he owed them - And that he has never encouraged, aided nor abetted the rebellion in any manner whatsoever.

Your Petitioner therefore prays that his said property together with all rents and profits accrude therefrom from and after Novr 1. 1864. be released and restored to him.

A McMillan