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time. This farm was in a distressed state, 

 and I did not like it. 



On reaching Baltimore, I engaged for the 

 farm at Orange-Hill, of three hundred 

 acres, for three hundred pounds per year 

 currency. This farm was three miles from 

 Baltimore. There were only two hundred 

 acres of cleared land ; the remainder for fire 

 and fences. I do not think that in any part 

 of England such poor land would let for 

 half the sum ; indeed, I do not suppose it 

 would let at all : but I know no such land 

 here ; for our land generally grows some- 

 thing. I then went to Mount- Vernon, and 

 told General Washington what I had seen ; 

 sold my cattle, horses, hogs, &c. (General 

 Sprigg becoming a great purchaser of cattle 

 and hogs, which he values much ;) and 

 brought rny family to Orange-Hill, when 

 1 began my farming. 



