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you, my friend, with a recital
of the hopes I have had blighted
from time to time by the delay
in the development of my
Coal property on [Deep?] river
& which I am now assured by
the best authority will soon
be of immense value, would
be inexcusable, as it would
be vain & there is nothing
now left to me but to
ask that you will no longer
subject yourself to censure
on my account, & that if
you will bring a blank
writ with you at Chatham
Feb. Court, returnable to
make Sep. Court next I
will confess service of
it – This is all I can do
at present & if in the mean
time or before final judgment
I can sell either Coal lands
negroes or House plots & which
I am determined to do