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Col. O. Brown,
Superintendent of the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen & Abandoned Lands:

Your petitioner respectfully represents the following facts: That he is a resident of the County of Accomack and a Citizen of the State of Virginia: he is the fee-simple owner of the following tract of land, to wit, the tract known as the “Ling land”, situate in Accomack County, State of Va, near the Court House thereof, and bounded on the East by the County Road leading from Drummond Town to Pungoteague; on the South by the lands belonging to the heirs of Major Custis dec'd., and on the West by the lands belonging to the heirs of William Parramore dec'd., all of which will now fully appear by the certified copy of deed herewith filed. That sometime in November 1861 your petitioner left this county, temporarily, and with the intention of returning, but remained beyond the lines of the United States Army until about July 1865. That on the 9th of July 1865, he took the oath of amnesty, prescribed by the proclamation of President Johnson, before John Sample, Provost Mar. & Capt. Comdg. U.S. Forces, and has since faithfully observed and kept the same -(the certificate of the said Capt. is herewith enclosed) -

Your petitioner further represents that he does

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