I have so repeatedly written you and have never received aline
from you, that I have frequently almost determined to decline the
matter I am still using great industry in geting up Company to
visit your grant and have left nothing undone on my part since the
death of my Brother I have been a perfect slave and have great
difficulty in Keeping the two families from actual want they ware left
without One Dollar I have gotten George the Eldest son of my
Brother in the Navy and he is ordered into the service I inclosed to
you my two Grants of land By J E B Austin do the best you can
with them for me hand the letters inclosed and say what is
necessary, from the intimacy and friendship between the families I had
hoped to been by you advised etc as to the interest we had taken in
the Grant you are labouring under fals impressions as to Botts and
my self On Next monday there is to be a large meeting of Citizens
at Versailles Woodford County on the subject of going to your
settlement I find it stands higher than any other grant the colonel
is about starting please [write] me and Mrs. J. H. Hawkins when
you find it Convenient so soon as I can place the families in that
situation that will Keep them from actual want It is my intention to
come to the Country Change if necessary my two grants and have
them located where you think best particularly the One on
Guadeloupe if best so to do the reports as to the inundation of the lands on
Brassos and Colorado Rivers is unfavourable and I am disprising (?)
those impressions believing they are not true