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From Robert Lewis

Gentlemen,

I am favored with your letters dated the 11th inst. in regard to the business with McClean, and the Round Bottom tract of Land. I have no hesitation in saying we had better take back the Land, and make the best terms we can with McClain— As far as I am interested, I am willing to submit to your discretion, whatever may seem most beneficial for the whole, and beg you will consider yourselves as entirely unshackled by me in this arrangement. I am very respectfully Dr Sir's Yr Mo. Obt Sevt

Robt Lewis

Source Note

ALS, ViMtvL: Lawrence Lewis Family Papers. Lewis addressed this letter to both Bushrod Washington and Lawrence Lewis "Executors of Genl Geo: Washington Decd/Mount Vernon." The letter was postmarked 19 April.