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Wants to know if Jerdone wants any pork or hogs; cash is scarce and would like to sell them; corn crop doing very poorly, the season being too wet and windy; wheat doing well, yielding 700 bushels and has grown two hogs heads of tobacco; sorry to learn Mr. Douglass will remain in Scotland until spring; has been sickness this fall and two enslaved persons have died.

Sends tobacco to be sold to cover cost of requested items. Draws a bill of exchange upon them.

There are seven fees in your account which belong to Mr. Richard's private account. I am sorry I have not been able to offer you this balance sooner.

I would like to be a candidate for the clerkship of Petersburg district.

I would appreciate an appointment of clerk in any district contiguous to this one. The debt due Patty Hall was from Samuel Davies and not from the company.

Will send the hogs out tomorrow morning; new partner, Mr. Samuel Beall of Williamsburg, has been taken on; Beall would like to meet with Jerdone; still missing money which hopes Holt will acknowledge.

Refers to judgment of case against Mr. Holt and its impacts; refers to Mr. Holt's reactions; advises him to wait to file other complaints until this whole account is settled.

Approves of deferring settlement until Mr. Johnson returns; reports sent statement to remove any injurious impressions of Mr. Holt's actions on the Chancellors' minds; reports other developments in the case; Holt has asked Marshall to represent him; Colo. Taylor's fee.