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29th October (Red House)Post Office. 
County of Charlotte-Va. 

The commifsary of the Freedman's Bureau-Richmond-Virginia

Your Petitioner, Henry Hancock of the county of Charlotte-va. 
colored and a freed man
Applies respectfully to your "offices" for aid. He is 36 years of age and has a wife and 7 children. He has Stephen Hancock 20 years old-who married your Petitioner's sister. She being 60 years old, on his hands to take care of and support and has maintained them since the surrender of Gen. Lee-in 1865-the old man being blind. All this he could do -But his "Employers," have withheld and trick him out of his wages so that he has not collected $50 since Lee surrendered and he is a faithful and good working hand as any in the county-