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to the authorities in Washington to please to look after the condition. colored people we do desire to live loving with the white people that are so fractious with us we hardly know what to do. It was spoke by Rebel Citizens in this county that a colored man have built a house on the said land for three years and now have to move off warned three weeks before end of Christmas. Also another colored man there had agreed with a white man to build a house on his land and by reading in a newspaper. so they say they do not have no land for the negroes for if he do hold on the said land and do live there five years the land will belong to him he goes to this Colored man and says that you cannot build on my land, for I have no land for negros for if they shall live there for I to move off and if so when shall they go. I [[strikethrough]] hear [[/strikethrough]] have no more at present but remain yours truly servant
(sigd) Elisha Copeland
(sigd) Contay De. Streatneas

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replaced "had a good" with "had agreed" e