Agreeable to an order of the Prest. & managers of the Dismal Swamp Land Company, I have made a special deposit, in the Virginia Bank at Norfolk, of your dividend, which with all others, consists alone in North Carolina Bank notes, the only money received by our Agent. Hereafter, I beg you will be good enough to appoint an Agent in Norfolk with authority to receive your dividends, which will be made in the month of November of each year. This will be more agreeable to me, as it will rid me of the necessity of having Bank accounts. Formerly a member of our board acted as a treasurer, who receives a commission for his services. We have thought fit to dispense with that expence, & have abridged others, so that together with other arrangements, we hope to make better dividends hereafter. Such is my impression but I have been a stock holder only a short time, & I may be rather sanguine. From what I can learn the competition will lessen in a year or two. Most of the holders of land near our property have worked up their first timber, ours will have the preference.

Any information in my power I will chearfully render, and should you have occasion to write, direct to me at Weyanoke near Charles City Ct. house. I am very respectfully yr. most obedt St