Viewing page 62 of 251

This transcription has been completed. Contact us with corrections.

0311

Freedman's Bureau. I respectfully ask that authority be granted me to take possession of it, that I may be enabled to execute the will of the Testatrix

Very Respectfully
Yr obt. servant
J.N. Schoolfield Exc. to
Mary Ann Schoolfield Dec'd.

J.N. Schoolfield This day personally appeared before me, J.M. Donnan, Notary Public for the City of Petersburg, who made oath that the facts contained in the above letter are true.

Witness my hand this 30th day of September 1865.

Jas. M. Donnan
Notary Public