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Onancock Va, 
July 15th 1867

Gen. S. C. Armstrong
Gen -

I feel it to be a duty to religion and humanity, to write to you about the outrageous manner in which Stepney Poulson (Freedman) has been treated [[strikethrough]] both [[/strikethrough]] by the court and endosed by Maj Sherwood Agent at Drummondtown. "Old unkle Stepney has been in Robert Poulson's family nearly all of his life, and nursed his children. Mr. Poulson some years before his death, give Stepney a lot of land for life, which can be proved by two very respectable white men, (Mr. Carmine and Budd) and he told Stepney to build a

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---------- Reopened for Editing 2023-11-16 10:33:00 to change a "+" to "&" (the plus sign is to be used only when transcribing math) ---------- Reopened for Editing 2023-11-17 16:30:24 Changed last name from Paulson to Poulson in one place