My family [at Swift Creek Plantation], I found all very well.

Old Uncle Charles my aide de camp is now on a visit to his numerous posterity at the Hurricane, when he returns I can give you some account of things there. I have employed a man named Harvey for that place, next year.

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Source: Howell Cobb Family Papers (MS 1376), Hargrett Rare Book & Manuscript Library, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia.