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0608

To

Col: Brown, Commissioner of the
Freedmen's &c: Bureau of Virginia.

Your petitioner Humphrey H. Curtis, having taken the oath prescribed by President Johnson's proclamation of the 29th May, 1865, and being a true & loyal citizen of the United States, begs leave to submit the following petition.

That he is the owner in fee of a tract of land called "Endview", situate in the County of Warwick, state of Virginia, near Lebanon Church, and containing about 500 acres, as fully appears by the certificate of the Clerk of said county herewith filed, marked A.  Your petitioner was necessarily compelled to leave said farm in the spring of, 1862, on which he resided with his family, it being in the very track of the then retreating and advancing armies: and returned to recover the possession of it in May last, soon after the cessation of hostilities, and found it in the possession of seven families of negroes, who still occupy it-  But said farm has never been confiscated, as is proven and shown, by the certificate of the Clerk of the United States district Court at Norfolk, also filed herewith as a part of this petition, marked B.  Your petitioner now shows that  

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