The improved Lot in Alexandria; the household furniture including (as I concieve in that description,) the pictures & plate; the kitchen furniture; the liquors, groceries & dead victuals laid in at the time of the General's death belong absolutely to you & may be disposed of by you, when & how you please.
Upon my return to Westmoreland I found the price of corn so encreased that it could not be purchased in any quantity for less than fifteen shillings per barrel. Colo. Washington is the only considerable corn maker in this County upon the Potomack, and has agreed to let you have 600 barrels at the above price and to wait for the mony until the 1st of May.
The Will should be proved at the first Fairfax Court, and this can be easily done by Mr Lewis's carrying it up and presenting it to the Court for probate, the whole of it being in the Testator's own hand writing and that well Known by most of the members of the Court.