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very best order Besides some six or seven other settlements on different parts of the plantation, & springs & suitable localities for tweny or thirty more.  It contains a fine manufacturing & grist mill, saw mill & evry convenience a place should have. As I heard the leaders in this cause wished to purchase such places & cut the plantations up in smaller farms & rent them to freedmen, & by that means carry on an institute for their education. I have thought fit to write to you on the subject If the place meets with your favor come & look at it & I am sure it will come up to expectations. Please let me hear from you at your earliest convenience.

I am with much respect
[[signature]] Wm M Sneed Jr [[/signature]]

Townesville
Granville County
N C

Rec'd I. (NC) June 18" 67