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0570

Portsmouth Virginia September 13 1865

[[strikethrough]] Capt [[/strikethrough]] Charles E Johnston
Asst. Super't Freedmen's Bureau
at Norfolk

Capt:

I respectfully submit the following statement connected with my two houses and lots situate in the City of Portsmouth for your earliest consideration-

I am a widow and have been some twenty or more years, aged seventy nine years, and previous to the evacuation of this City by the Confederate forces being then under medical treatment I was instructed by my family Physician to seek some more quiet locality remote from the bustle of city life &c. -

In accordance with my physician's advice I left Portsmouth and was only able to return some month or so ago when I found my houses occupied by the persons I rented them to (one of which was so rented three years before the commencement of the War) and they were paying rent to the Treasury Agent - this property is my only support - its rents being the only revenue I have - it cannot be properly classed under the head of abandoned property as I had rented it out before I left home - nor do I consider myself subjected to the exceptions of President Johnson's proclamation of Amnesty-

I respectfully request that my property (situate at the North Western intersection of Court and Crabb streets fronting on Court street (56 1/2) fifty-six & a half feet, on Crabb street (180) One hundred & eighty feet - upon which there are two tenements) be rented to me -

I herewith file the Certificate of the Clerk of the Court Hustings City of Portsmouth showing

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