These are to Certify that I was employed by Moses Austin in the month of May last to survey and locate One Hundred Thousand Acres of Land for which I recd four Hundred Dollars and that had the money for the balence of the warrents and for other expences come forward in Due time the said quantity of One Hundred Thousand Acres would have been Now ready for to return in to the Office at Richmond as well as the two other Surveys made for said Austin in Wythe County

James Newell.

Austin Ville Novr 20th 1795