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marked in the plan, are one or two other houses, very pleas 

 antly situated, and which, in case this farm should be divided 

 into two, as it formerly was, would answer well for the east 

 ern division. The buildings thus enumerated are all that 

 stand on the premises. 



Dogue-Run Farm (six hundred and fifty acres) has a 

 small, but new building for the overlooker ; one room only 

 below, and the same above, sixteen by twenty each; decent 

 and comfortable for its size. It has also covering for forty- 

 odd negroes, similar to what is mentioned on Union Farm. 

 It has a new circular barn, now finishing, on a new construc 

 tion; well calculated, it is conceived, for getting grain out 

 of the straw more expeditiously than the usual mode of 

 threshing. There are good sheds also, erecting, sufficient 

 to cover thirty work-horses and oxen. 



Muddy-Hole Farm (four hundred and seventy-six acres) 

 has a house for the overlooker in size and appearance nearly 

 like that at Dogue Run, but older ; the same kind of covering 

 for about thirty negroes, and a tolerably good barn, with 

 stables for the work-horses. 



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

 rated 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 beforementioned ; a large barn and stables, 

 gone much to decay, but these will be replaced next year 

 with new ones. 



I have deemed it necessary to give this detail of the build 

 ings, 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 enclosures are precisely and accurately 

 delineated in the plan ; and the fences now are, or soon will be, 



