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Elizabeth City Co Va
Nov. 6th 1865

Col 
   Your petitioner most respectfully asks restoration of a certain tract of land lying in the County of Elizabeth City Va bounded as follows, on the North by a branch of Back river, on the east by the lands of Wm Smith and R.H. Vaughan Dec'd, on the south by the land of the said R.H. Vaughan Dec'd, on the West by the land of the John H. Winder dec'd containing 400 acres more or less.
   Your petitioner comes fully under the benefits of the Amnesty Proclamation of  Presidents Lincoln and Johnson and herewith tenders a copy of his amnesty oath, certificate of clerk U.S. District Court that all proceedings against his property have been dismissed, certificate of the Clerk of Elizabeth City Court in proof of title.
   Your petitioner further asks restoration of his personal property or so much of it as he can identify as the dismissal of that is embraced in the order with the dismissal of the land from proceedings looking to confiscation &c.
   All of which is most respectfully submitted 
YOur Obt. Servt.
L.Y. Winder