LENOIR COUNTY, NC - DOCUMENTS - Francis Child Papers
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FRANCIS CHILD PAPERS - FOUND AT NORTH CAROLINA ARCHIVES - RALEIGH, NC -
MISC 403 -  abstracted by Martha Mewborn Marble

This Collection consists of just one letter

Kinston, 10 June 1790

Dear Sir,

    Yours of WILLIAM MCKERAL Irec ?? but has not the pleasure of answering
it then as I was at Newborn.  Your land I cannot sell at your prices.
Capt. CROOM says it would suit him very well to purchase it provided you
would take the value of it, but he thinks you ask much more than it is
worth.  Your cattle and hogs I could easily sell but I expected from what I
understood from you that you did not wish them sold without the land.  The
remainder of your town forty ?? I cannot sell for anything.

   I have agreeable to your request distributed in this neighborhood your
advertisements with submission to your superior judgement and knowledge.  I
think there is something very wrong in them for in my opinion (not that I
have ever had any other mans) it would be impossible for any man's oath who
had received a reward of fifty pounds or even the promise of it, to be
taken as evidence for he would ever be considered as a suborned evidence,
and consequently what he or them might say would never prosecute to
conviction.  You can easily know I imagine by asking, some of your
neighbors who are learned in these cases, we have none here now to tell us
such things.

   Mrs. White is very sick with the second days ague & Trevor and I have
been very sick also a few days past and am not now well. Tell your family
howde.

                          I am Dear Sir
                          Yours sincerely
                          Will. White

Capt. Child