[Copy of a letter from America from John Bell to Mr. James Bell,
October 15, 1820 (Schrier Collection) ]
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Mount Plesant October 15th 1820
Dear Cousin
Tho uniquanted as we are I feel [
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of the Knolieage I have of you also I am very glad to hear
you are Desires to Come to America & I hope to this plase
I am ver certen from the Knowledge I have of [your] Countray
that this is far prefferable to that here we all own [land]
in our own right for ever & only pay one Shilling for every
Twenty five pounds worth of Land P year tax Land has
been very low heir to what it has been, the Goverment
of the United States Owns three fourths of the Land in
this State & now has sell it to the price of five Shillings
[damaged] ten Pence P Acre & the [damaged] is now offered for Tracts of
80 Acres Each there is perhaps one fourth now Surveyed
& any Man may by paying (100) Dollars which is
L25 6. 8 our currency get 80 acres with good & sufficient
warrinted titils from the Goverment of the U.S.
there is
as rich Limestone Land heir as ever was in any Contry in
the world
I Expect the soil is in some places 3 or 4 feet
Deep as black as Charcole far richer than any manuer
