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To Col O. Brown. Commissioner for Virginia.

Your petitioner John Wray of the County of Elizabeth City would respectfully represent that he is the administrator of his brother George Wray dec'd that his brother died in 1863. leaving a small farm of Two Hundred acres more or less bounded on The East by the Back River Public Road. on The West by the land of Robert Tarlington. on The South by Back River & on the North by the County Road : that said tract of land is all the property of which the said George Wray died seized or possessed. That said George Wray would not have been embraced in any of the excepted classes of the Presidents Proclamation of May 29th 1865. had he lived: That your petitioner has taken and subscribed the oath of Amnesty as prescribed by the President proclamation of May 29th 1865, & is not within any of its excepted classes. Your petitioner would respectfully represent that all proceeding against said property have been regularly dismissed: and he would further represent that if said property is restored, he proposes to rent all of the land, the most of which is tillable & excellent land, to the Freedmen. In consideration of the premises your petitioner would ask its restoration.

John Wray