Capt. R. J. Blackburn Dumfries Virg^a Sir Your letter dated February 8 I have received. I in reply have to inform you that the Contractor for Virginia for 1801 is Michael McKean at Martinsburg, — [left margin notation: Griffith & M^cIlis Esq^r Wilmington N.C.] Accountants Office Decm^r 2^d 1800 December 6^th 1800 Sir You having been the formerly the Contractor in the State of North Carolina, for the Year 1800 many of which are involved in injuries & apparently militates against each other. I have thought it the proper person to submit the apparent contradictions which appear on those which have come to hand. Viz — a contract formed on the 24 May 1800 with Dan^l Wheaton for all & every ration in the State of N.C. from the 1^st day of Jan^y 1800 (which of course retrospects near 5 months) to the 9^th Columbia following, at 16 ¼ & 8 Cashes; this this being a general Contract were other could be necessary, yet there appears to be four other for part of the same found & States May — Some Drawings with you in Rations at Campblore, in Jan^y Feb^y to March 1800 But Affidavit wish — Incumberances with Sub Bud's remark that there was no Contractor there; for rations at Salisbury from 1 Jan^y to 31 May 1800 — Robert Hall accounts exhibited at this Office appears to have been furnishing, under no Contract of the year 1799 to all the present an N.C. for the first 3 or 4 months of the Year 1800 —