Your letter of June 25 I recd last Evening. I sorry indeed that you have losses, there as well as here, we have had no deaths Since Hall,1 but a good many sick and complaining, they Charge Hercules with Poisoning, and the cause of all deaths here for the last 12 months, he certainly has been intirmate with a Negroe Doct and have got physic from him the People have kept it conceal from me till the other day as soon as I was inform of it I had them both taken before Mr Clay. the Evidence in his opinion was not2 strong enough to send them to jail but I am satified, he has done a great deal of Mischeif, and ought to be hung. more of this when you come up, which I hope will be as soon as possible, for I am in daily expectation of Mischeif among them. we shall begin to cut the wheat which the hail has left us in the morning, and will do the best I can without assistance, tho we shall not have as many cutters by 5 including the 2 you sent us, as last Harvest Capt Martin has compleated the first bill of timber, but will not be able for want of water to do any thing with the other this season, the little Remaining Tobo I have not sold, I have heard nothing from White, but expect he wants his mony, and will be glad of the prospect of3 so soon receiving,4 these hard times—accept my best wishes for your welfare