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Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands,
Office Assistant Superintendent, Warwick County, Va.
Newport News, Va. December 31st 1866

Brevet Brig Genl O. Brown
Bureau of R.F. & A.L.
Richmond Virginia.

General.
I have the honor in compliance with Circular No 6 Hd Qrs Asst Comr. State of Va of date Jan 28 1866 to make the following report of conditions of Bureau Affairs in Warwick Co. Va.
Most of the farmers seem willing that a large proportion of the colored people on their land should stay the coming year. This will prevent a great deal of suffering which would have ensued upon a wholesale removal of all freedmen from the lands they now occupy. There are a few exceptional cases where the land owners wish a wholesale removal of the Freedmen from their lands. The most marked instance of this kind is on the farm of Wm. Young.  W.B. Jones who acts as his agent wishes to remove all the Freedmen from the farm. There are sixty Freedmen on the farm & if removed in midwinter with nowhere to go their situation will be desperate. The reason given by Jones for wishing to remove these Freedmen is that they wont work. Other Land owners in the County