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To
Col. Brown, Commissioner of the Freedmen's &c, Bureau of Virginia.
Your petitioner, the widow of T.G.H. Curtis Ded, most respectfully submits the following petition in behalf of herself and the heirs at law of her deceased husband. That she and the said heirs at law of the said decedent, (viz) Wm H. Curtis, H.H. Curtis Hr and James M. Curtis a minor are the legal owners of a tract of land situate in Warwick County Virginia, on warwick river, about four miles from its mouth, and containing 600 acres, as fully appears by the certificate of Wm B. Jones clerk herewith filed marked A1. That the said tract of land was necessarily given up, pro tempore, in April, 1862, because the defences that protected York Town in part, ran through said farm, and the daily engagements between the contending armies rendered it unsafe to remain- And it is now occupied in part by freedmen- but said land has never been confiscated, as is clearly shown by the certificate of the clerk of the United States district court at Norfolk, marked TB and filed herewith. Your petitioner now shows that she has been pardoned by taking the Amnesty oath of President Johnson's proclamation, and so have the heirs aforesaid - see copy of the herewith filed - and that she does not, no