Descendants of the original 70-plus African-American families who had their property taken through eminent domain in 1942 are hoping the government will agree to their recent requests to lease a portion of their ancestral lands.According to a press release from Holland & Knight, the law firm representing the Harris Neck Land Trust, the trust formally submitted a General Special Use Permit Application to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services at the Department of the Interior last Monday. The application requests enhanced access for descendants of Harris Neck to the land given to former slave Robert Dellegall following the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863.In 1942, the federal government took Harris Neck, for the sake of national security, to develop an airfield. The government gave families only a few weeks to leave.