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Hampton Va Nov. 12th 1867

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

Sir
I respectfully ask that the lot of land on Main Street in the town of Hampton in the County of Elizabeth City and State of Virginia upon the Books of the Bureau as the property of James Minson be restored to me  I became the purchaser of the said lot as will appear by certified copy of Deed filed herewith on the 23d day of April 1866 and knew nothing at the time of its being under the control of the Bureau 

Very Respectfully
T.S. Tennis

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