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0060

To Col: O M Brown
Commissioner Freedman's Bureau.
Richmond Va

Your petitioner Ro H Armistead of the city of Williamsburg and the State of Virginia
Respectfully represents, that early in the year 1862 and before the occupation of the said city by the United States forces, your petitioner went temporarily to the interior of the state to procure during such absence with a part of his family & property an honest subsistence leaving his residence and other of his property in said city & [[?]] in the possession, for him, of a part of his family, all of which that survives destruction, except that hereafter mentioned has continually remained in possession as aforesaid of a part of his family 
Petitioner further states that while his property was then occupied and used to the extent it could be applied, he is informed and he alledges, that in January 1865 seven (7) acres attached to and a part and parcel of his residence was by the Freedman's Bureau rented for the said year 1865 to one Shadrack Palmer at the price and value of five barrels & a half barrel corn to be delivered in december 1865; and another tract of lots or lands of about five acres for the same year then occupied were also rented by same to one Moses Weaver and Isaac Curtis, at the price and value of five barrels corn of the crop to be raised this year; terms to expire 1st day January 1866. These tenants are freedmen your petitioner respectfully alledges that these were not abandoned