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0750

To Col O Brown Commissioner for State of Virginia

George W. Elliott of the United States Navy  would most respectfully present the following case, in behalf of himself - his brothers widow and her seven orphan children. My brother Henry H. Elliott joined a volunteer company at Hampton, Va a the beginning of the war and served about twelve months. He then obtained a discharge with the view of returning to his home but was taken sick and died Had it not been for his death, he would have availed himself of the first Amnesty Proclamation of President Lincoln. In the year 1856 I advanced him money to purchase a part of his farm and as he had not been paid the interest on the sum advanced I thought it not improper I should be allowed to cultivate his farm. I applied to Capt Wilder in charge of abandoned lands &c &c for permission to do so but was charged One Hundred Dollars, altho I was then, am now & have been for fifteen years attached to the United States Navy. This was for the year 1864. I again applied through Mr. Charles Hickman a loyal citizen of the county to rent the farm. But I was charged Two Hundred Dollars. Altho I had advanced a large portion of the purchase money and was serving in the United States Navy, As there was no alternative but to pay that sum or lose the the enclosure I had placed around the farm. I authorized Mr. Hickman to rent it. I do not make this statement asking for the rent I have paid out the farm but in the interest of my brothers widow and her seven children. My deceased brother held no other position than that of a private -  he served twelve months- and then retired and would have long since returned to his home had he not died. Neither of his children were in the army or navy of the Confederate States. Their small farm consists of One Hundred fifty acres is now held by the Freedmens Bureau and rented as above stated by one and if restored the right or privileges of no Freedmen will

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