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0895

To Col. O Brown Commissioner for Virginia

Your petitioner Susan Gammel of the County of Elizabeth City would respectfully represent that she is now very old; that at the commencement of the war she owned two lots in the Town of Hampton, one bounded by the Main Street on the North, on the East, and South by the lot of [[strikethrough]] Cary S. Jones [[/Strikethrough]] of Benjamin F. Hudgins, on the West by the lot of Cary S. Jones: the other lot is bounded on the North by the lot of James Bayly, on the East by the lot of John Sherwood, & on the South by the lot of __ Hicks: That the said two lots is all the property she has: in her present condition it is of the utmost importance to her have possession as soon as she can do so. That if said property is returned to her the freedmen now on the premises will not be relocated before the 15th day of May next, by which time they doubtful can make all necessary arrangements for removal: as the lots afford them no other advantage whatever except as a location for their [[horses]]. There is only a family on each lot.

Your petitioner would represent that she has taken the Amnesty Oath, that no proceedings have ever been instituted against said property: that she is not embraced within any of the excepted classes of President Johnson, proclamation of May 29th AD 1865. In consideration of the premises she would respectfully and earnestly ask the restoration of her property.

Very Respectfully 
Susan E. Gammel