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To Coln Brown, Assistant Commissioner of the Bureau of Freedmen &c for the State of Virginia.
The undersigned begs leave respectfully to represent that he is a citizen of the County of Northampton, that in the year 1861, he left his county on business and resided with a part of his family in the City of Richmond until about the 15th day of May 1862, when he took up his residence in Liberty in the County of Bedford where he remained with his wife and a sick daughter who died on or about the 13th day of April 1865, until after the fall of Richmond, that during the war he was never engaged in any other business than the practice of his profession of law. That he never held any place or position, either civil, military or other under the Confederate Government or any state at any time during the war. That his only son, N.H. Fisher, remained in the county of Northampton during the whole of the war, and two out of three of his daughters remained there during the most of the war and until the end thereof. And he further represents that he was at no time engaged in arms or in giving aid and comfort to the enemies of the United States, and he states further that he never voluntarily participated in the rebellion. And he further represents, that four farms belonging to him with other property were libeled in the District Court of the United States at Norfolk and on the 31st day of May 1865,

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