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Culpeper Ct. Ho Virginia
Jany 24th 1866

To Major Genl O. Howard.
Commissioner of R.F. & A.L
Washington D.C.

General!
I feel greatly agrieved by the action of W.S. Chase Lt & Asst Supt of Freedmen who is stationed at this place. The case is this. I am a married woman with six children; the wife of Lenard Bowman. I have certain property in this County and the County of Farquier conveyed to trustees for the use and benefit of myself and children, not subject to the contracts or liable for the debts of my husband Lenard Bowman. 

During the early part of the war that has just closed I kept a boarding House and previous thereto carried on the business of [[?]]-maker and by industry and economy succeeded in making some money a portion of which I invested in a House & Lot at this place and took a deed from Thos. S. Alcocke of whom I purchased it, conveying the property in trust for the separate use and benefit of myself and children, free from the control of the contracts or debts of my husband. I paid for the House & Lot and moved into it with my family ever since the purchase was made to wit the 21st March 1864  The deed gave me the right to sell