In Consequence of your letter of the 18th of May <mutilated> my Nephew, I have authorised my friend Mr Andrew Parks of <mutilated> County to dispose of my 400 acres of Land on Kenhawa on such <mutilated> as you & he can agree. My ignorance of the value of Land in your part of the Country has induced me to prefer this mode to a¹ correspondence with you upon the subject which at so great a distance that we are from each other might be tedious & inconvenient. I beg leave however to observe that as your bank notes do not pass with us, and at all events there might be hazard in remitting them to this place, I shall require the purchase mo<mutilated> to be paid with one of the Banks in the District of Columbia men<mutilated> in my letter to Mr Parks & the purchase money must be secured either by my withholding a Conveyance till it is paid, or by a mortgage on th<mutilated> property. I am Sir yr mo. ob. Servt