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Now I respectfully request that you cause a thorough search of the records to be made in order to find said deed.

They might appeal to the lawyers, but this class of men have, in this place, learned, to perfection, the secret of "how not to do it" when the rights of a Freedman are involved.

Very Respectfully.
John W. Pratt.
Supt. Schools.
4th Va. Dist.

P.17.R.F.&AL.Va.1st vol.1868.

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[[stamp]] STATE OF VIRGINIA. BUREAU OF R. F. & A. L. RECD. HD. QRS. ASST. COMMISSIONER MAY 20 1868 [[/stamp]]

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