Your letter to Mr Custice was put into my hands a few days ago. The Tracts on the Mohawk lie in Montgomery County in a patent granted to Danl Cox in the township of Coxborough & Corolan, contain about 2000 acres one half of which belongs to the estate of Genl Washington & the other half to Govr Clinton‑ By a letter from Govr Clinton to the General I find them to be described as follows

Lot No. 8      in the    1st Division        105 acres     

     No. 6     in        3 Div               253

     No. 19    in        Do                   231

     No. 22    in        Do                   231

     No. 26    in        Do                   211

     No. 29    in        Do                   211

     No. 3     in        Do                   253

     No. 12    in        7th Divis.          262

     No. 28    in        Do                   262

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     The General values them on his will at $6 per acre, the price at which the latter Sales of those lands had been made.

     We will take $5 per acre for our undivided moiety paybl. in 3 or 4 equal annual instalments with interest from the day of sale. Should you not accept this offer & think proper to make any other proposition, I will lay the same before my Coexecutors I am Sir Yr mo. ob. Servt