I have within a few days past recd a letter from Mr Morson, in answer to mine of the 4th of May requesting him to pay to Mr Bernard the amount of the debt due by my nephew to you. This he declines doing until you have paid, or are prepared to pay the balance due upon the mortgage, when, and not before, he will be ready & glad to discharge the whole of his debt to me. He informs me that even the interest due upon the mortgage for some years past had not been paid, & that Mr Bernard threatened to bring a suit to foreclose, unless this part of the debt at least was satisfied.

     Under these circumstances, he anticipates both trouble & expense; and is besides uneasy at holding land thus encumbered, and exposed to be sold under a decree of foreclosure whenever Mr B. may think proper to demand it. I can say nothing against this cautious conduct, although it will subject me to the repeated but unavailing importunities of the Creditors, who, as well as Mr Morson, cannot understand why, with an abundance of assets in hand, which may easily be turned into money, the debt to Bernard should remain unpaid, & they be exposed to embarrassment & injury. If the Kenhawa land is the fund to be first resorted to for their & my relief, our case, I fear, is desperate indeed, as I am Satisfied that the Sale of it for Cash at almost any price is impracticable.

     My chief design in writing this letter was to account to you for my failure to pay Mr Bernard; but I avail myself of the occasion to repeat my earnest entreaty that you would relieve Mr Morson, about 40 Creditors of B. W. and myself from our embarrassment, by using the means in your power to pay off this incumbrance. I am Sir Very respectfully Yr mo. ob. Servt