No Doubt but you have charged me with Neglect for not Writing you before this time but being so far Distant from a Post Office has deprived me of that Previledge, I have Surveyed the 10990 Acre Tract of Land & find it wants 610 Acres to make out the Compliment called for in the Original—but I am determined to have it run over again for fear there may be some mistake made, I have also Surveyed the Cole River Tract & find it holds out for Compliment, I have got 30 Setlers on the Land, & considering the season they moved on they have fine Crops, I find there will be no Difficulty in geting as many setlers Yearly as I can furnish with Provision, the People are Emmegrating very fast to this countrey but they are Generally very poor, I expect to have 30 or 40 Setlers on from Pensylvania in the Month of November next these are people in good Circumstances 1 there is no News in this part of the World worth relating, Only the people appear to be unanimous in Supporting the constitution they exist under, I am Sir your Excellencys Obt Servt