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from Judge Scurn Judge of the District Court of Gillisonville, calling my attention to the extreme suffering of both white and black people in the upper part of my District, which letter I forwarded to Col. Low and asked him when he sent me any more corn to send a part of it to Boyds Landing which is near Grahamville and about thirty miles from here by turn pikes and such a bad road no bridges and no transportation that it was almost an improbability to send from here by land. I think it was the very day I forwarded the letter of Judge Scurn to Col. Low, that Col. Seabrook called upon me and said his corn had arrived at Hilton Head and he would have mine returned immediately. I remarked that I was glad it had come, that although I had enough corn for some days for my callers from the lower part of my district. I could get more up to the upper part and as that was at Hilton Head I would have it left there and get it sent up Hazards Creek about five miles from Grahamville by Capt. Sharp's small boat the next time it should be at Hilton Head. I therefore wrote to Mr. (the next sheet)