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(1 Ap^l 29^th 1780

D^r Sir

I wrote you a few Days ago, since w^ch I have received
your two Favours with the warrants of Survey therein mentioned
and also one other without warrants. The Scenes of Inequity
respecting Lands which daily present themselves to me, are
really astonishing, but I am determined to mind my own
Business and not trouble myself with other Peoples, except
where I am to be admitted as a Partner, upon the Esta-
-blishing any Claims. I have taken a number of Pre-
-Emptive Certificates as p^r [?] herewith sent, to clear out upon
shares & shall be obliged to you if you will pay the Price
of the warrants, take them out and send them by Major
George Thompson Upon this Plan we shall be sure of making
very considerable Profit, there being no Land in this
Country worth less than 20/. p^r Acre; and the best Kind
as many Pounds, where it is lies convenient to the Falls
of Ohio: and the Land mentioned in these Certificates being
generally choice Places, ^will I presume, be worth eight or ten
Pounds p^r Acre in Case the Pre-Emptions shall be esta-
-bished. The Law under which they are granted was passed at
the last Session of Assembly to prolong the Term of the
Commissioners sitting till the 26^th Instant, but no Time
is allowed for paying the State Price & taking out the
Pre Emption warrants; so that as the Laws now stand
if a man does not take out his warrant by the last
Day of the Commissioners sitting, he forfeits his Right:
This Absurdity is so great that the Assembly will certainly
take up the Matter & make that Provision w^ch they omitted
at the passing of the last Law. It will be necessary to apply
^to the Assembly for that Purpose before any Money is paid, as there
are numbers of People who are determined to locate their
State warrants upon those Lands. I have written to the
attorney on this subject and you will do well to consult
with him. I have located all our ^Military warrants at or near
the Ohio & Green River where it is navigable, [on their?]
most valuabe Bottoms; most of them in large Tracts.
Some of them lie remote from the present settlements,
& on that Account are not so highly prized as other
Lands, but to me they appear much more valuable