Some days ago my nephew Bush. Washington conveyed property to me in Trust for the payment of his debts. Since then I have met with a notice in the Alexandria paper signed by Mr Timms & Mr Mitchel advertising his Westmoreland land for sale on the 8th of feby to satisfy a debt due to you. This debt consists I understand of the sum of $1417.50 due 1s. Sept. last, & of $1060.12 due 1st of this month.

     Should you persist in making the sale, the consequence to my nephew and his family may be ruinous & it may deprive his other creditors of that Justice which your indulgence may enable me to secure for them. From the statement made to me by Bushrod, I trust his property, if not sacrificed, will be sufficient to satisfy all his creditors & to leave a decent support for his family. Your debt being well secured & carrying interest no injury can possibly result to you from waiting until it shall be in my power to dispose of his property for some thing ne<ar> its value, & I need not, I hope, assure you of my best exertions to bring his affairs to a conclusion as speedily & as advantageously as possible for his creditors.

     In making this request I solicit the same indulgence which I have not hesitated to extend to my own debtors, & such as I have reason to think will be granted to him by his other creditors I am Sir very respectfully yr mo. ob. Servt.