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0560 To Colonel Brown Asst Commr Freedmen Refugees & AL. for Virginia The petition of Samuel W Phillips of the county of Elizabeth City Virginia respectfully represents. that in the month of September or thereabouts your. petitioner did take and subscribe the Amnesty oath required by the Proclamation of the President of this United States of the 29 May 1865: that a petition is now pending before your department from your petitioner for the restoration of his land in said County now under the control of the Freedmens Bureau in which a copy of the said oath is had. also evidences of his title. He respectfully asks to make this amendment or supplement to his said petition now pending as aforesaid and prays that the rent of the said land from the time he took the said oath may be ordered to be paid him. Very resp, yr ob st. Saml W. Phillips Decr 27 1865 -
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