Understanding that you are the acting executor of your illustrious relative the late Genl Washington, I take the liberty respectfully to ask of you some information in relation to a bequest contained in his last Will. Feeling no personal interest in it, I had not seen his will or rather that part of it, which contains the bequests to individuals. Accidentally meeting with it a few months since, I was surprised to find an item to this effect; viz, "To Sally B. Haynie, a distant relation of mine I give and bequeath three hundred dollars."