Horton Howard Letter to Thomas Rotch Concerning Free Black Community

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[corresponds to page 1 of Horton Howard Letter to Thomas Rotch Concerning Free Black Community]
      

  	  			Delaware  7th Mo  20th  1821

	  Esteemed friend,

	  Thomas Rotch.   Thy favour of the 4th Inst is before

	  me.  Finding it necessary on my own account to send

	  to Steubenville to avail my self of the benefit of the

	  A.A. of Congress by advertising my lost Certificate

	  9 times in the Steubenville paper previous to the 30th

	  of  9th month in order to make application for a

	  new one to enable me to apply the payment made

	  on it to the payment of the Fraction(or a part of it

	  above mudbrook on Tuskaraheray.  I have made

	  a regular assignment for the for the Quarter Sec

	  tion thou hast the Certificate for which was pur

	  chased in both our names  asknowledged it before

	  a magistrate and caused the County seal to be affix

	  to it whereby The Transfer of my Title to Thee is com

	  plete, and for fear I should be disappointed in com-

	  ing to see thee in season I have sent the Transfer

	  by my son to be delivered with my own Papers

	  To David  Hoge, Register of the Land Office at Steuben

	  ville on in case of his absence, to W.R.Dickenson

	  or John England mention to them that I should

	  inform Thee of it.   I am persuaded that salt

	  may be obtained on it, independent of which the

[In left margin]

I this day since finishing this letter,recd a letter from B.W.Ladd  dated the 9th inst in which he says

our daughter sarah has been somewhat unwell and is desirous of returning home. I expect she will 

come  with Joseph. He also says "Some of William Foster's baggage has arrived at Wheeling but we

have heard  nothing more of his approach.  His prospect we understand is to visit this Yearly meeting

and proceed