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Rh  of about 300 acres joining the town which is all cleared. I am now engaged in fencing it and shall begin to build next spring if I can find the means. How comes on the Distillery? I wish you to send me some Whiskey as soon as possible, consign it to the care of Messrs. Prather & Smiley of Louisville who will take charge of it and send me also a couple of calf skins and a little soal leather. Cant you continue to patch up some sort of settlement between us? I will leave entirely to yourself knowing that it will be done as well as the circumstances will permit; for my part I know nothing of the business. I wish you could muster resolution enough to take the woods and pay us a visit, I am sure you will be so much pleased with this place and the prospects that you would consent to move here. I now nominate to you Mr. William Prince as a proper person to be appointed your Deputy here. He is a very honest man and a clever fellow We have here a Company of troops commanded by Honest F. Johnston of the 4th. We generally spend half the day together making war upon the partridges, grouse and fish-—the latter we take in great numbers in a seine. Is there no one with you who will purchase my tract of land on Mill Creek below Simmons Hutchinson (word illegible) Mill? I have there 419 acres which I would sell very low. I dont know but I would take two Dollars per acre in cash. I have long given up the Judge [John Cleves Symmes, his father-in-law] as a ruined man—which he owes in part to himself but much more to the cursed Malevolence of his enemys. They have however in some measure got this reward in the loss of character. I have heard several disinterested respectable persons speak of the treatment he has met with, with horror and detestation. Give Mrs. Harrison's and my best regards to Mrs. Findlay and to Smith if he is in the land of the living—to Dr. Sillman and family and all who remember us with friendship. 