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Corry Pa May 28 1869

Maj Genl O.O. Howard.

Dear Sir:

A colored woman just came into my office and made the following statement of facts. 
She, her husband and child are living here in Corry, were formerly slaves to one John Fox, who resided in Fanquier Co. Va. about two mile from Warrenton C.H. on the road leading to Fredericksburg. The place of his residence was not far, I believe, from Bealton Station on the Orange  and Alexandria R.R. John Fox died about the 1st day of the "year John Brown was hung" and by will emancipated all his slaves, 300 in number, and directed that they should be taken to Ohio, when lands were to be purchased for them. All his property by this will was given to those slaves. 
These negroes continued in slavery, however, until the war, when in the summer of 1862 this woman and her husband and children took refuge in Penn Co. By a letter which she has from a