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2. There are about twenty families, and about two hundred Freedmen in all, on this farm, occupying the huts left by the soldiers, they have put in small crops of corn, and are entirely self supporting.

4. On this farm, two white men, immediately after the evacuation, moved and put in a small crop, they have been allowed to remain, as tenants of this office, and, are to pay the Bureau one quarter of the crop.

7. About one hundred and fifty Freedmen are on this farm, about fifty of them self supporting and cultivating the farm, this farm was, abandoned by the owner, to engage in the rebellion, and left in charge of his servants, with a part of the stock, tools and on it, he is now in Canada. 

12. These buildings were used as a Confederate hospital, during the war, they will accommodate about 600 Six Hundred patients, there are but few negroes on this palace, they are self supporting. 

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