Has received Cox' letter containing charges exhibited against Williams and Josias Thompsonas agents of the National Road. Assumes they are the charges stated by James Marshall. Will state what he knows about. Charges concern sinking of ground on hill above and adjoining Wheeling, distance of road at Shepherd's Mill, too many bridges on little Wheeling Creek, contracts to bidders who could not carry them out and for purchasing land and changing road to pass land he purchased.