informs me that is probably in , it would have afforded me much pleasure, to have seen you all at my house, and it was my intention, to spend some time at while you were there; but my health has been so very infirm, that it has prevented me form [from] executing nearly all the arrangements, I had proposed for myself, for the last eight months. Knowing the aditions constantly joining your society, it has occurred to me, that some of them may be unprovided with farming lands; and I mention at this time, that I am interested in a Tract of about 12000 acres of very choice lands consisting of timber and prairie, fifteen or twenty miles from , upon which and several other families are settled, and cultivating most excellent farms— it is in one of the best neighborhoods in the — I do not know what my copartners in this tract would say about disposing of what remains unsold of the tract (say eight to nine thousand acres) but I should be disposed to sell upon reasonable terms, provided twenty to forty families valuable for their prudence industry, and good habits from your society, can be found to form a small colony of practical farmers— I am also interested with the same gentleman in lands near , in Henry and Mercer Counties, and believe this would on many accounts an othe[r] extremely desirable place or location for a colony of your people— I have said nothing to those owning with me relative to this subject, but suppose they would be governed materially by two considerations; namely the characters of the purchasers and the fact of their being actual setlers or not— If you think two small colonies of the right sort can be formed from your society, you will oblige [p. 124]