| Summary: | In the letter Rose discusses a disturbance among the slaves on his plantation, and he asks Hall to investigate the matter: "I must...ask you to ride over to my plantation and ascertain...the fact of the assembling of white men there on the Sabbath, shooting & drinking, all so there [sic] names & residence, if it is not conveneant [sic] for you to go will you have the goodness to send for these two Boys to come to your house where you can examne [sic] them, & if you find that the facts are as you have under stood them to be, you will greatly oblige me, by giving the two fellows, such chastisement as you think they diserve [sic], for allowing such conduct without letting me know of it...I have engaged an overseer for the next year, he will be down by the last of next week."
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