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the Ferry by the Mill, as authorized by the court. After this 

 work is performed, it will be time enough to point out more. 



To say what the other part of the force at this place shall 

 be employed about, is next to impossible, since there is such 

 a variety of jobs for them to attend to, besides fishing, hay 

 making, and the grain harvest in their respective seasons, 

 which must unavoidably employ them while they last. 



But, as it is designed to raise tobacco, and to tend in 

 corn that part, at least, of the new ground in front of the 

 house, which was cleared last year, in order that it may be 

 laid down in the fall in wheat and orchard grass, they must 

 prepare for them accordingly, and, under the circumstances 

 above mentioned, attempt as much of the first, that is, to 

 bacco, as there is a moral certainty of their tending well. 

 The men may be employed in getting posts and rails of a 

 good kind for the purpose of enclosing this tobacco. But 

 it is essential, if any labor is expected from the girls and 

 boys, who are about this house, to keep some person with 

 them, who will not only make them work, but who will see 

 that the work is well executed, and that the idleness, which 

 they appear every day in the practice of, may be avoided. 



