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0287

Richmond, Septr. 30th, 1863.

Col. A. Brown,

Dr. Sr.:
I most respectfully ask that you will give me immediate possession of my Sinclair Lot in the Town of Hampton. Said lot is situated on the principal business street of the place, having a front of fifty feet and running back one hundred.

It is at present occupied by two colored persons - one of them a barber, the other a shoemaker. The former, George Cottillion, has been free all his life and has been living in Hampton many years; the other I think, but am not certain, has always been free too. Their houses are the merest little huts and could be moved in a day.

I desire to build upon it immediately, if so permitted.

I am, Col, your most obt. servt,
F.A. Schmelz

I will add that there is nothing at all growing on the lot and that there is no fence around it.

F.A.S.

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