You have no doubt been informed, that our testator, some time before his death, sold his Dismal Swamp property to Gen. Lee, without however, having made a deed for the same. Some part of the consideration money was paid, but the exact amount is not now recollected.

     Gen. Lee has lately proposed to rescind the contract, without requiring a return of the money paid by him; and believing that the property is likely to become very valuable, and could now be sold for a good price, it is our decided opinion that his offer ought to be accepted. Should this not be done, we may be delayed a considerable time in obtaining a decree for the sale, without the slightest probability we think, of recovering more than what the property would sell for. An application was lately made to one of us in Philadelphia, by a gentleman who wished to purchase it; and who mentioned at the same time, that there was a sum of money now in the hands of the Directors received from the profits of the estate, to a proportion of which we are entitled. But until the business is settled with General Lee, we cannot receive it.

     Anxious, as we have always been, to obtain the concurrence of the legatees to any measures of importance in relation to the estate, we make this communication to you, and request immediate answers, that no time may be lost in answering the General's letter. We repeat the opinion before mentioned, that it will be greatly to our interest to accede to the proposition made to us.

     We are, gentlemen, respectfully, yr. mo. ob. serv'ts.