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amnesty and allegiance. Her son George D. Wise was killed in the lines of defenses, around Petersburg and died of his wounds on the 5th of July A.D. 1864.

On the occupation of the E. Shore of Virginia by the U. States forces, the Chesconessex lands were seized and held until a short time since when they were restored to John J. Wise and to the estate of George D. Wise. And the furniture of your memorialist at the house of George D. Wise was also seized and has since been held by the authorities of the United States in said county of Accomack. A full list of said articles of furniture is herewith filed.

Your memorialist therefore prays:-
1st: That her portion of rents in the paid lands for her dower shall be paid back to the time when the same was seized by the forces of the United States as abandoned lands.- Whatever her sons may have done she did not and could not abandon her abandon her dower interest in said lands, and did not and could not occupy the premises of said dower because its locality had never been fixed. 
2nd: That if she cannot be allowed her one third of rents back to the time when the lands were seized by the United States authoritys; that she may be paid her one third of one half of the rents back to the death of George D. Wise on the 5th July 1864 and her one third of the other half thereof back to the time of John J. Wise's taking the oath of amnesty and allegiance to the United States.