I have for two years past lived between two and three Miles below Louisville, and about the same distance from a late purchase made of the Indeans, lying from the Warbash River, up the Ohio. If no surveyor is yet appointed to that purchase, I take the liberty to offer myself for that post. From the long acquaintance I have had the honor of having with you, I conceive recommendations unnecessary. As to my ability to fill that post, I have for many years been no farther interested in mathematics, than common surveying which I have had considerable practice in since I have been in Kentucky. While a student with parson Waddle, I studied Euclid, trigonometry, Surveying, Navigation, and several other things connected with Mathematics, so much as would be necessary, I should carefully revise, if I succeed in the appointment, and devote my whole attention to the business if requesit. My family have enjoyed good health since we left Albemarle

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