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To Col. Samuel Thomas. Assistant Commissioner of the Freedman's Bureau for Mississippi

The petition of James Cathell, a Citizen of Warren County Mississippi, Sixty eight years of age.

Your petitioner respectfully states that he is the owner of a tract of land about two miles above Vicksburg on the Yazoo road a full and particular description of which will be found in his original deeds thereto which are filed herewith. He further states that his place was retained by him tho' he did not reside on it in person, until this year. He rented it last year (1864) to James A. Robinson.

Your petitioner further states that he is informed and believes his place was never registered as abandoned on Confiscable land and was never leased by any Officer or agent of the United States. But that it was taken possession of this year by the Military authorities of the United States and by them assigned to the Freedmen's Bureau as a home for Refugees or Freedmen - and is now occupied by Freedmen.

Your petitioner has taken the amnesty oath prescribed by the proclamation of Prest Johnson of the 29th of May 1865. as will be seen by reference to a Copy thereof filed herewith. 

Your petitioner has been living several years on a rented place which he will have to deliver up now in a short time and he wants to return to his own place. He therefore respectfully requests that his property may be restored to him.

James Cathell by
T. A. Marshall Atty