Joseph Fawcett

“ And I feel no disposition to engage in a project so fraught with vexation and insult as I apprehend this would be it is true the most of our neighbors are civil but I frequently experience the cold supercillious contempt of a poor mortal like my self. ”

“ Shardlin to have been sent to the packet office at Fredericksburg, where he had applied but did not find them, and was under an impression that were lost until recently he has discovered the mistake, the object therefore of this communication is to prevail on you to get these goods up from Petersburg and to forward them to this place by some safe hand as they are valueable articles belonging to his sisters.
John Rader was here to day and we had an interview on the subject of his property on the creek. he will not agree to rent for more than three years. he appears to expect some courting. ”