The County Court of Fairfax has appointed Mr Moore to settle our executors accounts, and he will attend us h<mutilated> any time we wish. I wish it were possible that we <c>ould have a meeting previous to this business being taken up by the Commr in order to agree upon a mode of stating & in fact to state the general account. I am prevented by company from going to your house which I intended to do as soon as it should be in my power. Suppose you come down someday next week and dine with us, and let us devote the morning to this business. I send you a Copy of my account which will show you the manner in which I think it ought to be stated; but I know very little about accounts, and if you prefer another mode I will adopt yours. Thus far is clear that we must incorporate into one Statement the debits & credits of the general account, altho each of us must necessarily have a private or seperate account to which the general account will refer.

     I have very few reciepts for the Sums paid to the different legatees; but I presume that you have those which I want, or that the checks can be got from the Bank which will be considered as evidence of payments by the Commissioner. If your accounts & vouchers are prepared, let us endeavour to have them settled by the Commr next week, as I shall not be at home for some weeks afterwards.

     As to our seperate accounts, Mr Moore advises that we should state on a seperate paper all the items for which we have not vouchers, (such as payments to the free Negroes who can give no reciepts) and swear to it before a Magistrate, the aggregate of which account can be debited & credited in the account, which we may seperately exhibit.

     After we have had a meeting we can see what vouchers are wanting and can procure them. If you can come down for the purpose abovementioned, be so good as to bring your account with a particular statement of the vouc<hers i>n your possession as to the payments made to legatees, whch w<il>l enable us to see what are to be looked for.

     When you have leisure be so good as to draw off our private account, crediting me with Gardners debt & debiting such articles as I owe you for, amongst which I will thank you to enter the sum paid by your nephew for the taxes on Mr Turners Kentucky land.

     Mr Blackburn is here with his double barrel gun prepared to Join you in the destruction of all our partridges. I am Dear Sir very sincerely yrs