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0308

Petersburg Va. Augt. 28, 1865

Capt. A.S. Flagg
Supt. 1st Dist. Freedman's Bureau, Virginia

Sir
As Executor of the Will of Mrs. Mary Ann Schoolfield I respectfully ask of you the restoration to her legatees of the property belonging to her estate, held by the Freedman's Bureau as abandoned property. Mrs Schoolfield never abandoned this property. She did not reside in the town where it was situated;- for six years prior to the evacuation of Norfolk. She had been living in Petersburg, and was cut off from it by the occupation of Portsmouth by the forces of the United States, and before the close of the war she died. Being upwards of seventy years of age at the time of her death, of course she could have taken no part against the United States Government.

By her will, a copy of which is here to attached, she bequeathed her estate to her children Mary Ann, wife of Wm. W. Sharp of Norfolk, who remained at her home, and paid the taxes on the property, Hannah Frances, wife of John M. Wythe, Rebecca P. wife of David G. Potts Joseph W. and Noah C. Schoolfield, all of