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mentioned on Union Farm. It has a new circular barn, now finishing, 

 on a new construction; well calculated, it is conceived, for getting 

 grain out of the straw more expeditiously than in the usual mode of 

 threshing. There are good sheds also erecting, sufficient to cover 

 thirty work-horses and oxen. 



Muddy-hol,e .vParm (four hundred and seventy six acres) has a 

 house for the ovfeijB.ooker, in size and appearance nearly like that at 

 Dogue Run, but older: the same kind of covering for about thirty 

 negroes, and a tolerable good barn, with stables for the work-horses. 



River Farm, which is the largest of the four, and separated 

 from the others by Little Hunting Creek, contains twelve hundred and 

 seven acres of ploughable land, has an overlooker's house of one large, 

 and two small rooms below, and one or two above; sufficient covering 

 for fifty or sixty negroes, like those before mentioned; a large 

 barn, and stables, gone much to decay, but will be replaced next year, 

 with new ones. 



I have deemed it necessary to give this detail of the buildings, 

 that a precise idea might be had of the conveniences and inconveniences 

 of them; and I believe the recital is just in all its parts. The 

 inclosures are precisely and accurately delineated in the plan; and 

 the fences now are, or soon will be, in respectable order. 



I would let these four farms to four substantial farmers, of 

 wealth and strength sufficient to cultivate them, and who would ensure 

 to me the regular payment of the rents; and I would give them leases 

 for seven or ten years, at the rate of a Spanish milled dollar, or 

 other money current at the time, in this country, equivalent thereto, 

 for every acre of ploughable and mowable ground, within the inclosures 

 of the respective farms, as marked in th^'plan; and would allow the 

 tenants, during that period, to take fuel, and use timber from the 

 woodland, to repair the buildings, and to keep the fences in order 

 until live fences could be substituted in place of dead ones; but in 

 this case no sub-tenants would be allowed. 



Or if these farms are adjudged too large, and the rents, of 

 course, too heavy for such farmers as might incline to emigrate, I 

 should have no insuperable objection against dividing each into as 

 many small ones, as a society of them, formed for the purpose, could 

 agree upon, among themselves; even if it should be by the fields, as 

 they are now arranged Xwhich the plan would enable them to do), pro- 

 vided such buildings afe-ZTttey would be content with, should be erected 

 at their own expense, in the manner already mentioned. ^ In which case, 

 as in the former, fuel, and timber for repairs, would be allowed; but, 

 as an inducement to parcel out my grounds into such small tenements. 



