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To. Col: Brown Bureau of Freedmen, Refugees &c
Richmond Va

Sir.
I have the honor respectfully to ask to be restored the possession of a lot of land in the Town of Hampton Elizabeth City County, and State of Virginia, lying on Wine Street, Bounded on the north, by the lot on land belonging to the heirs of Wm Cunningham dec'd  East by the land belonging to the heirs of Sam'l Pace, dec'd  South by the lot of land belonging to Thos. Liliston, & West by Wine Street. I have the honor further to state that in the spring of 1861, having a tolerable large family, and being in the immediate vicinity of two contending armies, I deemed it prudent to remove my family to a place of greater security than my home thus afforded. I carried them to the City of Richmond where they have since remained. Although in the lines of the so called Confederate Government I was never in the army but was employed in a purely civil capacity which was absolutely necessary for the support of my family. On the 8th day of April 1865 I took and subscribed the Oath of Allegiance to the United States Government, and at once received employment from the U.S. Government,

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