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Office of Asst. Supt. B.R.F. &. A.L.
Sub-Dist. of Essex, King & Middlesex Co's. Va.
Tappahannock, Essex Co. Va. Oct. 30. 1866

Bv't Brig. Genl. O. Brown
Bureau R.F. & A.L.

General;
I have the honor to make the following report in compliance with Circular No. 6 of date January 29th 1866.
To show the true feeling of the whites in this Sub-Dist. towards the Freedmen and the Bureau I will embrace in this report a matter which transpired between them and myself a few days since: A man by the name of Parker living in Dinwiddie County is the owner of a house and lot in this place, he came here a few days since and rented the house and lot to a Mr. McGuire; the house stands on the river bank, immediately on the river shore twenty five or thirty rods from the house is an old building which years ago was used as a stable but now unfit to put a dumb beast in. Several months ago an old colored man and his wife, both over eighty years of age, also crippled, were turned out of house and home 

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