Viewing page 171 of 272

This transcription has been completed. Contact us with corrections.

Forces, or Authorities ordered him off and took possession. 
John C. Wise and his family were his, Parker's, tenants at sufferance of the small tenement near a steam-saw-mill, well known to Genl. Brown himself, before the seizure and occupation by the U. States, and after and ever since until his death, and his family are remaining there still. He was an invalid, bed-ridden and had been for fifteen years before the war, and was not engaged in the war in any way or form. Thus the whole Legal title and half the equitable title to the land was in actual and loyal possession of the land when it was seized and held as and for "abandoned" land, by the forces, or authorities of the U. States. But John C. Wise and his family truly were and ever since have been mere tenants at sufferance of the undefined part, or parcel where they were and since have been, and they have never claimed any adverse possession thereof, that I know of, to the title of Parker and myself, though they have claimed and do claim the right of possession of the whole land as against the U. States, by reason of their