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To Col A. Brown. Commissioner for Virginia.

Your Petitioner Lavinia C. Vaughan of the County of Elizabeth City would respectfully represent that she is the widow of Ro. H. Vaughan: That said, Ro. H. Vaughan died in 1863 intestate, seized of a tract of land, containing about Three Hundred acres, situate in the County of Elizabeth City and bounded by the lands of William S. Smith's Estate on the North and East. South by the lands of Moore Estate, and West by the lands of L. Y. Winder: That said Ro. H. Vaughan left the following children Alice, Lizzie, James, William, Ida Bell, Henry and Robert: Your Petitioner would represent that she is not within any of the exception clauses of the President Proclamation of May 29th 1865. and that she has taken and subscribed the oath of Amnesty as prescribed in said Proclamation, which oath is now on file in your office in my application for the restoration of the property of William S. Smith's of whom she is one the heirs at law.

Your Petitioner would represent that all proceedings against said property in the U. S. Court have been regularly dismissed. She would further represent that she has seven children to maintain support, most of these utterly unable to render any service by reason of their age. That she has no means whatever to give them clothes & food, except from the property now in the possession of the Freedmens Bureau - That her residence is now occupied as a School House, subjecting her to many agreed inconveniences & with 

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