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Washington 17th Jany 67
Major Gen Howard
Sir
On Saturday last a gentleman from the Freedman's Bureau called on me to make inquiries on behalf of some colored persons living in Richmond VA, concerning a small estate of a colored man named Lewis J. Kennedy.  Having been the administrator on the Estate, I briefly explained to him that I had long since settled the same under