[Recto]

It has not been in my power to wait
on you this fall, and the Winter is too far set
in, now, to venture from home I haue made pro
vision for the setling your Grandaughter & my son
& expect they will get to housekeeping the beginning
of the Summer workmen are agreed with for
the necesary repairs & I haue put my Son in posses
sion of Twenty working negros & ten young ones
making in the whole thirty, also fifty head of Cattle
besides Sheep, hogs & Horses which is as much
as the state of my affairs will admit of at
present. He is also in possession of a tract of Land
called Awbrys[?] which I purchased of James Hume
on the head of [illegible], with a very fine
Peach & apple orchard & all necessary houses
for croping The Plantation of about nine hun
dred Acres, laying in Richmond & Westmoreland
with a fine apple Orchard, a good Mill seat
& about 300 Acres of fine low Grounds, he had
before & is the place he is to liue at, Mrs Tuberville
Join me in duty to you & our Aunt & love to our
cousins at Laneville &: in wishing you all a
happy new year & am Your most affectionate Humble Servant
John Tuberville.

[Verso]

The Honorable Richard Corbin esquire
of Laneville

for favor of
John L Tuberville

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