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Lucy Selina Furnace
Oct. 8th 1871
Maj. Genl. O. O. Howard
Genl
I have the honor to present the following statement and to request information from you as to whether the person calling himself Jno Ward Jordan was ever in the employ of the government as the agent of the Freedmen's Bureau and if yes; whether there is any way to compel him to repay the amount.

On the 8th of May 1869 this Jno Ward Jordan received of an old Black man named Jno Henry $100. to be