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and returned to Essex Co in October 1865 to provide for his family then dependent on the US Government for support.  Upon application to the farmers of Essex Co for labor or lease of lands he was refused upon the grounds, and for the stated reason that the farmers and citizens of Essex Co had signed a written agreement not to hire, or permit to return to the county, and blacks who left the county during the war.

But very little has been done for the education of the Freedman.  There are two schools in the district under the direction of the Quakers but the facilities for attending schools and the benefits arising therefrom are necessarily very limited in a community scattered over such an extent of territory.

The result of my observation during this time, is that there will be less suffering from destitution during the coming winter in this district, than in other counties in the Western part of the states, where the blacks did not commence work in season to secure a crop.  There are about three hundred women and children of Yorktown, the families