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To Col. O. Brown. Commissioner for Virginia. Your Petitioners William R Vaughan & Mary A. Vaughan his wife, Lainia C. Vaughan, Elizabeth V. Chiles and William T. Smith would respectfully represent the Mary A. Vaughan the wife of the said William R. Vaughan, Lainia C. Vaughan, Elizabeth V. Chiles and William T. Smith are the children & heirs at law of the late William S. Smith of the county of Elizabeth City. That said William S. Smith die seized of a certain tract of land, lying said county and boarded on the South by the James River & adjoining the lands of George Mr. Bates, Samuel Cunningham, Willima Carney & c,  containing the Thousand more or less. - he also died seized of one other Tract of land situate in said county; & would bounded by Black River,  & adjoining the lands of Robert N. Vaughan, Lewis Y. Winder, &c., containing Three Hundred and acres known as "School Neck." That the said William S. Smith died in 1863 & was never engaged in any way in the late war. That all proceedings against said property have been regularly aid legally dismissed. That your Petitioners have taken & subscribed amnesty oath of President Johnson as prescribed to it his proclamation of May 29th 1865, and that neither of them are within any of its excepted classes: That said land will be rented to the Freedmen now upon it for present tear. In consideration of the premises, your petitioners would respectfully ask its restoration together with it sent the personal [[?]]: W.R. Vaughan Lainia C. Vaughan Elizabeth V. Chiles William T. Smith.