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Penn'a Freedmen's Relief Association,
No. 424 WALNUT STREET, PHILADA.
10 mo. 30. 1865:

To Col. O. Brown Asst. Commissioner
Bureau Refugees Freedmen &c for Virginia.

Respected friend,
The agent of the friends Freedmen's Relief Ass'n. of Philada., at Yorktown, informs us that the officers of the Bureau there propose to lease the "Warren Farm" for the purpose of settling freedmen upon it.

We highly approve of the plan, the farm being fertile, well supplied with wood and convenient to the oystering grounds of the York River.

Our agent also informs that R. Churchill proposed that the lands of Stafford G Cook should be returned to him upon his agreeing to lease to the freedmen at not more than $5 per plot of 1¼ acres, except that trade & stores should pay a higher rent. As no plan can no be carried into effect, [[strikethrough]] to enable [[/strikethrough]] before the 1st of the coming year, to enable the freed people on Cook's lands to move themselves and houses to other farms, we think that though the rent is high,

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