Although he then declared to me that he had entered into a lease for the land (about fifteen acres) on behalf of his son, yet he has now the hardihood to say that he never once thought of making such an agreement - This, I presume, he has recently been advised to say, on discovering that that agreement was illegal. In consequence of his thus seizing on the only spots of cultivated land which had hitherto supplied the wants of my family, I have been unnecessarily obliged, at a great expense, to enclose and clear a piece of ground on this side of the creek. I have therefore, in conclusion, to request your interference in this case, so far as to prevent our original title to the land in question from being damaged by the intrusion of others, and that, on the arrival of the Governor, you will please to lay the affair before His Excellency's attention, that a proper, and final arrangement may be made. As Loveridge appears to have been urged on throughout the