Before the rect of your favor of the 7th I had written you fully on the business to which it relates. Since then, I have had another opportunity of writing to my agent on the Kenhawa, & I have again repeated my request that he will not fail to pay all the arrears of taxes due upon your lands & to draw upon me for the amount which it will be in my power to remit him before it will be necessary for him to make the advance.

     Since my return to Virga, I observed by one of our papers, that our Legislature at its Session in may, had passed a law for the relief of all persons whose lands had become forfeited by omissions to enter them on the Commissioners books, or to pay the taxes due on them. I immediately wrote to chief Justice Marshall requesting him to call upon the auditor, & to obtain for me all the information necessary to enable me to secure your Son's tract of land. I have now recieved his answer, the purport of which I take great pleasure in communicating to you.