This text was obtained via automated optical character recognition.
It has not been edited and may therefore contain several errors.

---

Samuel Jackson to Andrew Jackson Jr.
Clifton Plantation July 22d 1857
Dear Pa
I received your most welcome and longes looked for letter yesterday. You told me to say to Judge Beasley you would take the 8 0 acres next to Mr Bass. Judge Beverly told me you had bought when you came down the last time And wrote to me to know if I had received a check from you he sayed you told him you would send it as soon as you arrived at Nashville. And is very anxious to receive it, And has been expecting it every day since you left. The Cotton is doing finely, Henry counted 125 forms and 15 boles on one stalk yesterday. old man Gallender has just left the house & he came to bring me a fine water melon he sayes we will make 150 bales if we have no storm to blow it out, he sayes he has made on this place 75 bales on year, And sayes that was not to be compared with this this is so far superior to it.
I hope it wil turn out as he thinks it will. I send him up twice a week, to the Mitchell place to see to the hogs, they are doing very well, but I believe they are occasionly killed. We cant find out who does it. I made him mark all the pigs he could get up some are so [illeg] they could not be marked. Stanly wanted to bring down four of those cows but I heard they were Jverv mean ones, And I would not let him bring them. I still have the ones I had when you were hear. I had very good corn but the birds rackoons and squirrels, are distroying it very fast, it will make good deal of fodder. The peas are doing finely. I make Billy and old Ben cut grass every day and have been doing it for a month, And it will last till fall I think. We will then have all