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Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands,
Head-Quarters Assistant Commissioner, District of Virginia,
Richmond, Va., May 20th 1868.

To
W. R. Morse
S. A. Commr 4. Sub. Dist.

Sir,

It has been reported to this Head Qrs. That a certain piece of land in the village of Orange Court House, purchased by a free colored woman named Fannie Morris before the war, and held in trust, by deed, by one Ambrose Madison, is now illegally held from this woman by the son of the trustee, who is deceased. The Bvt. Brig. Genl, Asst. Commr directs that you thoroughly investigate this case, and make a full report of it to these Head Quarters.
The deed of trust should be on record at the court house of the county.

Yours respectfully 
Will A. Coulter
Bvt. Capt. U.S. Army
A.A.A. Genl.

P. RF&AL Va 1868.