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Maj Genl Howard Genl I have the honor most respectfully to ask that I may be granted permission to prepare for wheat my undivided interest in my fathers land in Back River Bounded in the north & west by north branch of Back River South & east by county road & Moor farm This land of which I speak belonged to the late Wm S Smith Decd of this Elizabetn City Co Va The land has been taken possession of as abandon land & rented out to negroes only one third of it is cultivated by them & there is nearly three Hundred acres of cleard land & four legatees