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Lejla Bilanovic at Mar 17, 2023 03:19 PM

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[15 March 1780]

Sir

My Man's leaving me put
me to very great Inconvenience, as I could
not for any Price hire a Man, and
obliged to travel to this county without
any assistance with my Baggage: I am
still under the same difficulty not being
able to hire a Man here; but have a very
faithful Negro Fellow wch I shall be obliged
to carry out with me. No Person can
conceive the distress the People in this
country are in for want of Grain,
without seeing it; not one Half of
them have any; nor can the Rest assist
them, nor have any of them except
a very few, any Thing for their Stock. The
accounts from Kentuckey are very
Dreadful, there being no Bread to be got,
& the Hardness of the winter has reduced
the Buffaloe's so much that they are
very indifferent Food... I set out this
day from hence and expect to get ou[illegible]

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[15 March 1780]

Sir

My Man's leaving me put me to very great Inconvenience, as I could not for any Price hire a Man, and obliged to travel to this county without any assistance with my Baggage: I am still under the same difficulty not being able to hire a Man here; but have a very faithful Negro Fellow wch I shall be obliged to carry out with me. No Person can conceive the distress the People in this country are in for want of Grain, without seeing it; not one Half of them have any; nor can the Rest assist them, nor have any of them except a very few, any Thing for their Stock. The accounts from Kentuckey are very Dreadful, there being no Bread to be got, & the Hardness of the winter has reduced the Buffaloe's so much that they are very indifferent Food. I set out this day from hence and expect to get ou[illegible]