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0634

State of Virginia
City of Norfolk S.S.

This day John Holmes personally appeared before me the under signed a Notary Public in and for the City aforesaid in the state aforesaid, and, being by me first duly sworn, deposed as follows, that he was well acquainted with John Baldry, late of the City of Norfolk; that said Baldry left the City of Norfolk at the time of its evacuation by the so called Confederate Forces about the 10th May 1862 and went with said Forces to the south. That the deponent has not seen him since, nor has he since that time been in Norfolk as he verily believes; that he has heard from reliable sources, from those who said they buried him, that he was killed on or about the 30th July 1864, at the blowing up of the mine before Petersburg. That at the time of his death he was the owner in fee simple, [[derived?]] by descent from his mother of a House and Lot at the North West Corner of Cumberland and Bute streets, now in the occupancy as he has heard of a Mr Moss, claiming the same under the Govt as abandoned property. That the said John Baldry never married, and that the only heirs at law entitled to the said 

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