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Office Asst. Supt. R.F and A L.
Northampton Co. Virginia
Eastville Va. March 5th/66

Colonel;

I have the honor to submit the following report for February 1866.

The Freedmen in this County are in excellent circumstances, all who are able to work, with few exceptions are in some lucrative employment, many of them owning horses and wagons, boats for oystering and fishing; also many own, or rent small tracts of land and conduct themselves in a most praiseworthy manner, not only earning a livelihood for themselves and families, but are in many cases which have come to my notice, where some of the colored men here, who were slaves three years ago, and now own property to the amount of more than one thousand dollars.  But a few days ago, a colored man and white man came to my office to have a note witnessed in favor of the colored man, for $200 dollars loaned the white man, and yet many of these former slaveowners, will have no black man on his farm, nor

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