Bushrod Washington and Lawrence Lewis to George Fayette Washington, 3 Jan. 1823
Recipient
AS we hope that the time is not far distant when we shall be enabled to close our executorial duties, we feel anxious to do so under such a sanction as to prevent all future disputes when we are gone. Our accounts to the last of the year 1819 have been settled, under orders of Fairfax Court and approved. The only difficulty we apprehend, and wish to avoid, is, the settlement of the individual accounts of the legatees; and this difficulty consists, as we apprehend, principally in the mode of calculating the interest.