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encouragement to go into the back woods 

 to live. He said it was not worth culti- 

 vating, even as a gift. 



Having got my horses, cattle, hogs, &c. 

 fixed, and my wife and family in lodgings, 

 I began to look out for some place to settle 

 in j and clearly seeing that farming would 

 not do on any of the soils I had seen, and 

 Colonel Lyles being a friendly, creditable, 

 and well-informed man, and a man of 

 property, I advised with him on every 

 occasion. I thought I would try to get a 

 connection to brew ; and the city of Wash- 

 ington being a small distance from Alex- 

 andria, I made my thoughts known to him. 

 He offered to join me in a brewery at 

 Washington, and we agreed to go together 

 to look out for a situation. We had an 

 invitation to dine with Doctor Thornton: 

 and the Doctor having a public dinner on 

 that day, I got introduced to many respect- 

 able characters ; and among the rest to Mr. 

 Law, a gentleman married to the grand- 

 daughter of Mrs, Washington, Mr. Law 



