SUBJECT: Francis.Johnson.Letter.To.John.Kasey;.Page.2.1840.Breckinridge.HISTORY-Letters

Francis Johnson Letter To John Kasey; Page 2 September 30, 1840 
Breckinridge County KyArchives History Letters 
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Please do not feel an aversion at my strict inquiry for here I give you my 
reason from your account should it induce me I shall pay you a visit, for I now 
wish to see your fine country.  I address you as Personal believing you will 
answer me accordingly.  Tell me the seasons of your crop by whether they are 
harder or more favourable than  ours  Tell me the average price of tobacco 
generally.  The quantity common to the thousand.  Tell me the difference 
between the cultivation of crops there & here.  Please tell me the price of 
good unimproved land, the price of good land with which we call here tolerable 
improvements & what could good farm be had for with favourable improvements & 
convenient both to land & water tolerably so.  How far to the Ohio.  The name 
of the county seat & how far.  Tell me the place most favourable for trade.  
What kind of game have you & if deer be common with you.  Please write to me 
the most favourable chance of purchasing land.  Would it be the best plan to 
come prepared to purchase and should I like, or would it be more favourable to 
move depending on renting untill a favourable opportunity occurs.  Dear Sir if 
I can find incouragement sufficient to induce me to come & see your country as 
I have no help to assist me in labour.  I consider it would suit me best to 
purchase a place ready open with what we call common improvements thereon.  I 
will tell you what sort of place would suit me.  A place lying well for 
cultivation akin to produce. Water convenient both to family & for stock 
firewood & timber handy also.  Please tell me what such a tract of land as 
above mentioned would cost per acre, as near as you could guess.  Dear sir if 
you will pay some attention to this subject, should such a piece of land be 
offered for sale, as that you could get a letter to me by the first of August, 
I would be thankful to you besides paying you for your trouble.  Yours 
respectfully, John Cumpton 
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