My relation, Mr John Lewis, who represents this County in the Virginia Assembly, has promised to take charge of this letter, & forward it from Richmond by some private conveyance if it can be sent with.

After an absence of six weeks I returned here yesterday and found your favor of the 3d inst[ant].

The meeting of the Stockholders of the Dismal Swamp Land Company was held, as the law directs, at Suffolk on the 15th Ulto: and I was directed by an order of the board to deposit in the Bank of Virga in Norfolk the dividends of all absent members which was done.

I wrote to you some months since in reply to a letter of yours on the subject of your concerns in the Dismal S. Land Company. You were desirous I should deposit your dividends in th branch bank of Va. in Norfolk, in order to [?] the necessity of your appointing an atto. to recieve them directly from me. I am perfectly willing to do so, but it is desirable that you specify the manner in which the order for such dividend shall be transmitted to you, whether by mail or otherwise.

Your letter of the 13th inst. did not reach me until last Saturday, and I now reply to it by the first mail from Charles City Court house.

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.