I should have answered your letter of the 15th of feby much sooner if I had not expected that a meeting of the legatees would take place in the course of the summer, when I should have an opportunity of taking¹ their opinion as to the further delay you had requested.² Altho I strongly wished to afford you every indulgence in my power, yet as many of the legatees have never recd any part of the estate, I thought it but right that they at least shd be consulted. At a meeting on the 5th instant it was determined³ to sell the land to Mr Burwell Basset in the event of your giving it up; this you will no doubt do unless, as I hope will be the case, you & Mr Bassett can come to terms mutually agreable.⁴ It is possible that Mr Basset will be very well satisfied if he can be assured of recieving the mony in the time your mention. I expect he will call upon you. Yr ob Sert