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Armstrong Supt.
Sg'd J. M. Schofield
Bvt Maj Genl & Asst Comr
Official
O Brown
A.A.A.G

Manly R. M. Supt Education
179/193
L.R. B. 531. 4. V. 66.
Rec'd back Dec 20th/66
Richmond Va
Dec 18th 1866
Respectfully returned to Genl. O. Brown A.A.A.G.
We have three government stoves in use in school rooms at the Bakery Buildings, a part I presume of those referred to as in possession of Mr C. F. Chase. I think one small and almost worthless stove. belonging to the gov't is in Mr Norfolks school room at the 3d St Colored M E Church. I presume one or two of the stoves referred to may be found in the school rooms in the new buildings on Navy Hill. 
Sg'd H. W. Hovey
Agent &c &c 

Bureau RF & AL
H'd Qrs Asst Com'r D of P
Richmond Va Dec 20th/66
Respectfully referred to Rev R. M. Manly Supt Education to know if any of the stoves herein named are at Navy Hill.
By order of Bvt Maj Genl Schofield Asst Com
O. Brown
A.A.A.G.

Bates J. A.  Capt & Supt
Clark Granville Col'd
1. Vol. 1867. Page 79.
L.R. C. 561. 4. V. 66.
Bureau RF & AL
H'd Qrs Asst Comr D of P
Richmond Va Dec 20/66
Respectfully referred to Capt J. A. Bates Supt &c. who will endeavor to make Granville Clark understand and perform his obligations to his wife Nancy.
By order of Bvt Maj Genl Schofield Asst Comr
O Brown
A.A.A.G.

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War Dept Bureau
Cook S G
Hogg Mr
L.R. W. 766. 4. V. 66.
Rec'd back Dec 20th/66
Bureau RF & AL
Office Asst Supt York & Jas City Co's
Yorktown Va Dec 10./66
Respectfully returned with information that the "freedmen" village of Newtown is situated upon the land of Mr Cook. Mr Hogg owns a small corner of the same upon which are about one dozen houses. In the village of Newtown are about one hundred and fifty houses with a population of over five hundred persons. each building has one and one quarter acres of land 
This land are restored to Mr Cook this year with the agreement that he was to lease to Freedmen at the rate of five dollars per year for house and garden and he complied with the same. Last July he made application for possession of his farm at the end of the year. the same was forwarded: the condition of his tenants depicted but it was returned with information "that the Freedmen have no claim to the land they now occupy" and directing me to "advise all to seek homes elsewhere"
Many communications were forwarded regarding the removal of Freedmen from Newtown, but they were all returned with endorsements in the same tenor: the question was then submitted as to what point they should be removed to which no answer was ever received. The position of this office was no enviable one, being directed to advise people to move, but to what point I knew not, and having no means at hand to transport them, the Freedmen claiming that they would resist to the bitter end any efforts for that result. My sympathies too, could not but be enlisted for the hundreds of Freedmen who were living in Newtown: they erecting their homes there under the protection and direction of the U.S. Authorities, and told at the time that this spot would if they chose be their future homes. Schools and Churches were erected in the immediate vicinity for their accommodation and improvement, but now they are told that the "Bureau" will not protect them in staying where they are. and cannot furnish them homes elsewhere.
The difficulties under which I labored were laid before Genl S. C. Armstrong Supt of this Dist, and he in company with myself saw Mr Cook recently and he gave a reluctant consent to allow, all who paid

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