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To the Assistant Commissioner for the State of Virginia
Bureau Refugees Freedmen &c.
Richmond, Va

Sir
As the husband of Hannah Lewelling I respectfully ask that the tract of land situate in the County of Warwick & State of Virginia containing by estimation Eighty acres bounded North by the lands of Robert Wilson East by the lands of the heirs of William Lee dec'd. South by James River and West by the lands of the heirs of John Jones dec'd. and now upon the Books of your Bureau be restored to me  This land is not occupied by any person, & consequently the rights of no one will be infringed by its restoration

Very respectfully
W.P. Lewelling  Husband 
of Hannah Lewelling

Hampton Va Dec 10th 1867