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We put our horses, cattle, pigs, &c. into 

 these rooms. The charges were very high ; 

 and in about twenty- one days our bill 

 amounted to seventy pounds currency : we 

 had moved our horses and cattle some days 

 before, or it would have been much more. 

 I had repeatedly invitations to buy lands, 

 or take farms ; but my reply was, that I 

 wanted only forty acres, or between that 

 quantity and a hundred. At this the peo- 

 ple were amazed ; for having heard that I 

 had agreed with General Washington for 

 twelve hundred acres, and now did not like 

 it, they thought I was mad. Great numbers 

 of them came ..to see my live stock. They 

 wanted to give me land for them : but I 

 was not so fond of the land as they expect- 

 ed ; I did not think any I had seen worth 

 having ; for by this time I had learnt the 

 price of labour, and likewise what was the 

 produce. 



When I had been about seven days at 

 Alexandria, 1 hired a horse and went to 

 Mount- Vernon, to view my intended farm; 



