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To Col: O. Browne [[Brown]],
Superintendent of the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands:

Your petitioner respectfully presents the following statement of fact; he is a resident of the County of Accomack in the State of Virginia; he is the fee-simple owner of the following tract of land to wit; a tract known as "Poplar Grove" containing, by estimation, Two Hundred and sixty acres; and is tenant for life of one other tract containing about One Hundred acres situate twenty five miles North of the Court House of the County of Accomack; that in November 1861 he left, temporarily, and with the intention of returning to, his said place of residence and remained beyond the lines of the Federal Army until May 1865; that on the 10th day July 1865 he took the oath of Amnesty, prescribed by the proclamation of President Johnson and has from that time faithfully observed & kept the same (The original certificate of the taking of said oath of Amnesty before R.B. Mayes, Probate judge of Yazoo County in the State of Mississippi is herewith enclosed.) Your petitioner further represents that he does not come within any of the exceptions of the Amnesty Proclamation of President Johnson and that [[strikethrough]] the [[/strikethrough]] neither of the above tracts of land has been confiscated, nor have any proceedings looking to confiscation been instituted, but that said lands are now held by tenants, who hold leases from Mr Hartley, for

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