Robert Carter writes to Colonel Thomas Lee of Westmoreland County, May 10, 1729, concerning land that Lee wishes to acquire "at the falls of Petowmack," noting difficulties with the surveys and the warrants, and hoping that 11 acres can be set aside for his son Charles. He reminds Lee that his quitrents have not been paid for 4 years, and he includes an accouint of what Lee owes.

     I have now the Leisure to answer your Favor of the 2d. of
April. The Errors of your Surveyer and your Guide you cannot Expect I am
to be answerable Accountable for.

     I now Send my Account stated I think according to your
Expectation, which upon Payment of to Mr. Meeks I order him to deliver
your Deed to whom I now Send it,

     Please to allow me to Say the force of your reasoning
about your Entry of Land at the falls of Potomac is beyond my under= Compre=
standing hension to Comprehend You had a warrant for 150 Acres Circumscribed be=
[t] wee [n] your own two tracts the very words of your warrant, there is a 150 Acres
[. . .] if you resolve to s Insist upon it and there is 11 Acres lying upon
[Major Tu] bervile's Land, to Supply a Small part of my Sons warrant that bears
[the same] date with yours, Certainly no reasoning can be convincing that
in your Grant these 11 Acres Should be Acq [. . .] Included and my Sons --
Warrant Entirely fruitless. As I must do you Justice I am Sure you have
quantity Enough to think I Should be very blameworthy to deny it to my
own Son,

     The warrants you write for are of a very loose nature and not to
be understood where they are to lie Mr. Thomas tells me Pearson has Several
Ps [Parcells] of Land upon the North run, upon which of these and upon which Side of the
side of the [sic ] Tract is not Intelligible and there are Several warrants already out Join
ing upon Pearsons lines, Reads Entry is but little better . . . understand Plainer & I
can tell you Mr. Warner has warrants in his hands upon the [ . . . ] of Colonel Page and my Sons for the taking up all the Lands
that are ungranted upon the branches of Difficult run Horsepen run and

     You will please to pardon me when I put you in mind tht.
you hold 3184 Acres of Land that you owe Quitrents for for 4 Years that do not at least for these
appear to me to be paid for ever Since the Grant, I am

     I Enclose to you 2 Commissions for Captain McCarty and
Captain Allerton with blanks for the Subalterns, I am
Your most

     now if you please to pay the money in bills of Exchange I am
willing to allow you 3 bits upon the Pound --

     If you pay in Cash Guineas must go at 21/ other Go [ld at . . .] /
the penny weight cut Gold I must have none. if you pay in Silver every [. . .]
must be 19 penny weight milled money at the British value. 3 bits [ . . . ]
to be deducted and then you will answer your own proposal [ . . . ]
Satisfactory to me