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To Col O. Brown Commissioner for Virginia

Your Petitioner Nathaniel Taylor jr of the County of James City, would most respectfully represent. That he is the legal owner of a tract of land situate- lying and being in the County of Warwick, containing Two Hundred & Eighty One acres, and bounded by Warwick River and the lands of William C Whittaker. That said tract of land is known as the "Ship Yard" and is valued at Six Thousand Dollars. Your petitioner would further represent that he purchased a few years before the war a tract of land in the County of James City, known as the "Bayley Tract" containing four Hundred & Sixty-Five acres for the sum of Five Thousand Dollars, most of which is yet due to infant children. That your petitioner resided on said "Bailey Tract" at the commencement of the war. Your petitioner would represent that he has taken and subscribed in good faith the oath as prescribed in the proclamation of His Excellency President Johnson, and the same he has observed in good faith and so intends, and that he is not within any of the excepted classes of said proclamation. Your petitions would further represent that he is also the owner of some furniture & articles of household character, as well as some little stock which he can easily identify & prove as his property, which are now held by parties without any claim whatever in his immediate neighborhood. Your Petitioner was but a detailed mechanic in the Ordnance Department at Richmond. Now in consideration of the premises, your petitioner would most respectfully ask the restoration of the said Two Tracts of land- viz "The Ship Yard" in the County of Warwick &

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