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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 here had agreed with a white man to build a house on his land and by reading in a newspaper, so they said they do not have no land for the negroes for if he do hold on the said land and he do live there five years the land will belong to him . he goes to this Colonel man and says that you cannot build on my land, for I have no land for negroes for if they shall not live there for I would hurt them, two hundred and fifty people on the Wise farm that are told by the Lieutenant they have to move off and if so where shall they go.  I have no more at present but remain

Yours truly servant
(sigd)  Elisha Copeland
(sigd)  Contay De. Streatneas