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0261 Elizabeth City Co Va November 1st 1865 To Col O Brown Supt Bureau Freedmen &c c& for State of Virginia. Colonel I most respectfully ask that a certain tract of land lying and being in the County of York Va owned by me may be returned. Said property is bounded as follows on the East by Wythes Creek. on South by said creek and a Mill Pond. West crossing the Main Road by the lands respectively of Mitchell and Patrick and north by the land of the Estate of Root Shelby dic? and the land of P. T. Smith and Slaughter tract, containing by survey (676) Six hundred and Seventy six acres and known as "Shady Banks". I have received a special pardon from his Excellency Presid Andrew Johnson and herewith transmit certificate of the same together with certificate of Clerk U S Court that all proceedings of said estate have been deemed and also Certificate of ownership to said property All of which is most respectfully submitted Your obt Svt. B. F. Hudgins
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