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Richmond Va
August 2nd 1865

Dear Sir:
It gives me great pleasure to introduce to your favorable consideration Mr John A. Jones of York County.

Mr Jones has been long and intimately known to me as a gentleman of the highest moral character. He is a farmer of great wealth and influence and is universally esteemed by the community in which he resides.

Very respectfully
Thos R Bowden

Col O Brown
Asst Comm'r of Freedmen in Va