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1209

Washington D.C.
August 1st 1865

General Howard, 
Chief of the Freedman's Bureau -

Sir- With great inconvenience and fatigue, I have travelled from Portsmouth Va to this place to obtain from you that redress - which I have in vain endeavoured to secure through the Treasury Department and the Sub agency of your Department at Norfolk - and which, from a summary statement, I trust you will readily grant. I am the owner of some real estate in the City of Portsmouth Va, my only source of support - and am now in my 78th year of age - In February 1862 - to administer to the relief of a granson suffering under severe illness - as well as to avoid the alarm and mental anxiety from continual reports that the city would be attacked by the Federal Troops - I went to Raleigh N.C. not expecting to be from home any great length of time - leaving my property in the hands of my agent

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