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Recd Asst Comr 6 Oct/65

Warrenton Va
October 4th 1865.

Payne Richard
States that during the war, two of his Negro women died leaving a number of children varying in age from 3 to 12 years. - that they have no protector but himself, and asks whether the Bureau will care for them, they being a great trouble and expence to him

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