Thomas Newton, Jr. to the Governor April 7, 1799

I some time ago inclosed your Excellency the proceedings of the directors of the Dismal Swamp Canal Company, requesting me to draw for the State's quota of the requisition called for by the first of this month. We are now in great want, for the reasons I then assigned, and if your Excellency will please to send down a warrant on the Treasury for the $l000 payable to me, I can make it answer here as well as cash, and save the risque of bringing money down. Capt. Vaughan, from this place, will be a good hand to send it down by; or if it is given Mr. James Heron, it will answer the purpose as well, as he is coming down.
Gen. Lee, when Governor, took possession of a piece of land belonging to me to erect Fort Nelson, which was worth at least thirty pounds a year. At the instance of the Secretary of War for the United States to Captain Blackburn, it has been valued by Capt. B.'s appointment of Col. Byrd, and my appointment of Mr. Baylor Hill, at £500, and I cannot get the least satisfaction either for rent or valuation, which I suppose may arise from an Act of last Congress, allowing each State the power of laying out what money is due the U. S. in fortifications, &c. I shall be exceedingly obliged to your Excellency for information whether my conjectures are right, as I should be as well satisfied with a payment here as from the U. S.
I pray you excuse this trouble and believe me, yours, &c.

 

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CALENDAR of VIRGINIA STATE PAPERS and OTHER MANUSCRIPTS, FROM JANUARY 1, 1799, TO DECEMBER 31, 1807, PRESERVED IN THE CAPITOL AT RICHMOND. ARRANGED AND EDITED, UNDER THE AUTHORITY AND DIRECTION OF Hon. H. W. FLOUENOY, SECRETARY Of THE COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA, AND STATE LIBRARIAN. VOLUME IX. RICHMOND: J. H. O.BANNON, SUPERINTENDENT PUBLIC PRINTING. 1890