I wish to employ some gentleman of the bar to attend to Mr Parks suit, for the executors of Genl Washington, but not having a full Copy of the bill, I do not Know in what Court it is depending. Will you be so good as to inform me? And if you can recommend to me a respectable gentleman of the profession who practises in that Court, you will much oblige me. I think it will be best for the different Setts of defendants to employ different lawyers. I am very respectfully Dr Sir your mo. ob.

     I much regret that it will not be in my power to prepare my answer to Mr Parks bill until I can have an opportunity to refer to my papers. This Shall be attended to as soon as I return home. I shall deliver the bill, as you direct, to Mr Shelly. I am very respectfully yr mo. ob. Servt 

     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.

I take the liberty of enquiring whether the letter I wrote you under date of the 12th July last was received? And of asking the favor of an answer to it. I am induced to give you this trouble in consequence of the encreasing difficulties to which Mr Bernards mortgage, &; Mr Morson's refusal on that account to pay off his bonds, expose me. In particular I would state the case of one of my nephews Creditors who must be ruined if the payment of his debt is much longer delayed, &; my promise to him to write again to you on this subject.

     Since my return from Phila. I recd your letter of the 24 April— I have this day written to Mr Morson requesting him to pay Mr Bernard the sum you mention, and as I have no chance to recieve the residue due from Mr M. until Bernards encumbrance is fully discharged, I trust that you will be enabled to give me some assurances that this will speedily be accomplished.

     I have within a few days past recd a letter from Mr Morson, in answer to mine of the 4th of May requesting him to pay to Mr Bernard the amount of the debt due by my nephew to you. This he declines doing until you have paid, or are prepared to pay the balance due upon the mortgage, when, and not before, he will be ready & glad to discharge the whole of his debt to me.

     Having sold Laurel Grove & recieved in Cash one half of the purchase money, I have it in my power, & am ready at any moment to pay a moiety of the Judgment which you recovered against my nephew. I presume you would wish it paid at once to Mr Barnett, & if so I will make the remittance to him as soon as I receive your directions to do so.

     Your last letter, in addition to the statement made me by Geo. Washington, will induce me to dismiss Bushrods Suit against you, & to take the provision made by his fathers will in discharge of the Sum which Colo. Washington recd as his guardian from the Executors of Genl Washington. I shall do this, not because I am at all clear that the provision is equal to his claim, but because I wish to settle his affairs as speedily as possible, and the difference, if any, against him, cannot I presume be considerable.

     I recd your letter of the 2d— My nephews imprudent purchases at the sale of his father's estate cannot, I presume, have frustrated your purpose of his encumbering Laurel Grove from the mortgage, further than the amount to which those purchases extended, and to that amount I am willing that the land should continue liable, until it can be ascertained, on whose side is the balance of account. All I ask, or can expect is, that you will pay the balance of the mortgage, leaving this sum, for the present, for me to pay out of the Trust property.

     My nephew Bush. Washington having conveyed all his estate to me for the payment of his Debts, I shall be compelled in the first place, and as soon as possible to sell his land in Westmoreland, upon which I understand there was a mortgage for a considerable sum of money given by his father to Mr Barnet.