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Official copy made - & sent

Edisto S.C.
Oct 2nd 1866

To
O.O. Howard
Maj. Genl.
Com'r Frdm

A petition from the Colored People of Edisto and surrounding Islands of S.C., To Maj. Genl O.O. Howard Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen &c Washington, D.C. for the removal of R.K. Scott, Brig Genl Ass't Com'r Bureau Refugees, Freedmen &c S.C., with Reasons assigned.

We, the undersigned Contractors and Planters of the soil of Edisto in particular, with other sea islands of S.C. for the present year ending Jan 1st 1867, would most respectfully stir up your pure mind by way of remembrance, in calling your attention to a promise you made, at a certain time when here, to a Committee on the island, in which you solemnly pledged