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at the same time & since I left home I directed my wife
to endeavour to purchase State Warrants for me as I expected
that was the best method for Obtaining lands in this Country
tho [I?] do not think so well of that plan at present as the
Greatest part of the Goods lands that the people are Anyways
Acquainted with are taken by Settlements & presumptions
there is about one Million of Acres of the best land that is in
that Situation besides the old Surveys [which?] is upwards
of Two hundred thousand Acres and the [Claimos?] not near
done yet. In short those that as Strangers that Comes out
with warrants will be at a very Great loss to locate them
tho' I have been here some time & had an opportunity
of Seeing the Old Surveyors Book. & [?]
of the Claimers in this district I shall be at a great
loss to know where the Vacant lands lies upon the whole
I thought it was best to [? ?] lands.

Colo. Henderson & Doctr Walker [Commission?][hole in paper]
Running the line between Carolina & this state Could not
agree before they Gott the Sigth of Cumberland mountain they parted
& each went on with these lines & they were two & a half
miles apart Colo Henderson when he got to Cumberland
Mountain quited his line. Dotr Walker went on down
Cumberland River as fair as Price's Settlement wch is some
distance down and on the south side of the River &
from a late account from him we understand that Price's
is twenty Six & three quarters of a Mile in Virginia & that
he thinks but a Small part of Cumberland will be in
Carolinaif any. Cols. Abraham Bowman arrived
here a few days ago who informs me the greatest fact of the stocks of Horses
Cattle & Sheep are dead. I understand that there was but one