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Bureau Refugees, Freedmen & A. Lands,
Head Quarters, 3rd Div., 11th Sub-Dist., Va.
Boydton, Va., April 3rd, 1868.

Bvt. Brig. Genl O. Brown,
Asst. Comr., Dist. Va.,
Richmond, Va.,

General:

In accordance with endorsement from your Head Qrs., dated Richmond, Va., March 26th, 1868, I have the honor to make the following report, viz; That the colored man (Hudgins) has proved to me beyond a doubt, that, the boys, Armstead and Andrew (Col'd) are the sons of Armstead Gavis (F) but, that, he (Hudgins) is the Step Father of the boys, as he married their mother, under the Slave Laws, when the boys were very small (about the year 1858) and that Hudgins (C) has provided for the children, ever since marrying their mother. That Gavis never claimed the children, until about a year ago, that the children are now about 12 & 16 years of age, and that Gavis claims the children, now,

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