Guilford Couty N C
May 6 1863
Honarble Goviner Z B
Vance Sir I Drope
you A lines to Inform
you that I Volinterd
and went in to Ser
ves and after wards
I was discharged on the
Accouny Bade offlicktion
when I Left I moved
my propty to my
Fatherlaws Lewis G
I Returned back and demand
ed my propty and He
Refused to Give it up
and Says that he wont
Give thee propty only
Cordine to Law Goviner
Vance my Frinds
Request for you to S[??]
S m[?] A th[??] for
our Sheriff Allemance [1]
[page 2]
Conty M[????] to
Give thee Sherriff
to take the
propty out of my
Farthalaws hands
Lewis Geger for
it his Justley my
propty as I want my
propty to Make A
crop Goviner you
will pleassd to extend
to this for Me Shortly
and you oblilge your
Frend James Cook
Govier If you will Attend
to this write to me To
Gibsonville post office
Soon If you plesed
This James Cook
I want to and
nothing more