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Deep Creek, Norfolk Co., Va. Sep. 23d 1865 Genera Howard; I write to obtain information concerning a crop of corn which I have raised on a plantation that was abandoned. General Hicks gave me permission to inclose with a fence as much land as I thought I might desire to support myself and family, seeing that I had never been on the government. I did so. And now one Dr. White, who was a colonel in the rebel army, comes and claims [[strikethrough]] haff [[/strikethrough]] half the produce of the land I have cultivated, which I am informed conflicts with a circular issued from the Freedmens Beaureau. Believing from evidences which