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Richmond Va Sept 8th 1865
To: Col O Borwn Supt Freedmen Abandoned Lands &c &c Richmond Va

Colonel.
Your petitioner most respectfully represents that his wife is  one of the heirs of the last Robert Hudgins of Elizabeth City County Va and is the owner of a certain tract of land in said county, being part of her fathers estate which was awarded to her in a division of the real estate of the said Robert Hudgins, who died previous to the war. This piece of land contains by actual survey One Hundred and fifteen 65/100 acres and is a part of what is known as the Bloomfield Tract (The original Tract divided between the children being 422 93/100 acres.) The land claimed by your petitioner on behalf of his wife, and himself, is bounded on the North by a branch of Back River on the South by the County Road, on the East by the land of Robert S Hudgins and on the West by the land of John Moore.
The object of your petitioners application is to most earnestly ask that the above mentioned property may be restored to his wife and himself in order they may be able to provide a support for themselves, it being all the property owned by them of any description. Your petitioner respectfully represents that his wife was only married to him a little over one year since, and as a woman has taken no part in the war, was only forced to leave home from the fact that she had no relatives who remained in the county during the war, and it is therefore obvious that being a woman without protection was compelled to seek a home with her relatives.
Your petitioner respectfully represents 
that he held the appointment from the Confederate Govt of Asst Paymaster in Navy- filling the position of Asst Storekeeper grades below the rank of Lieutenant