Your favr of the 30th March I have just recd & am greatly surprised you should not long ago have known in whose hands your Bond was deposited, as Mr Butler when he assigned it to me directed Mr Carmichael to give you information; & I wrote to you last July or first of August by Captn John Kelly requesting you would take in my Bond which he held of nearly the amount of yours, & that it should be good against your Bond in my possession; having more heard from you on that subject, I addressed <mutilated> you not long since by the way of Leesburg, to know if you, whether you held my Bonds your letter which I have just recd has satisfyed me that nothing has been done in the business— I have therefore in consiquence of your Letter drawn an order on you at sight in favor of Mr Wm Whann for $790—17 print. & in Interest on your Bond from the 15th Decr 1802 untill the 1st Apl 1804 one year and 3 Months, your Bond carried Int. from date unless punctually paid, I have on the other side made a statement of Bond & Int. to the 1st Apl 1804; as you prefer paying in Baltimore, which will fully answer my purchase agreeable to your request I have drawn on you payable thus. I am Dr Sir respectfully Your Ob. Sert