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give double that Price rather than not
get it, provided it lies on or near the Ohio.
The last Accounts from my Brother
George are, that there is likely to be a
Scarcity of Land for the Treasury warrants
in a convenient Part of the Country,
& that it will shortly command any Price that
shall be demanded for it. I shall write again
from Holston.

I am yr Hum Servt
John May
March the 15th 1780

P.S. If any Letters should be left
in Wmsburg for me pray open
them. J M