At the request of my mother, to whom was addressed your letter of the 2nd ultimo, I communicate to you her wish upon the subject you submitted for her Consideration. The recourse had by the Executors to a Court of Chancery, with a view of fixing either upon the Representatives of Colo.

In consequence of your note of the 8 June last, I have seen Mr Burwell Bassett, and delivered him the contract upon the authority of which I held the land the property of the late General Geo.

yours of 15 Jan. I recd, a few days since at the Gloucester post office— I should have writen you much sooner but continued to hope that you would hear from Me to more effect— I lament that it has not been in my power to comply with the promise I made you— I made that promise in expectation of geting the money upon a Judgmt I had obtain'd but the party against whom it was have found means Still to delay me— I cannot however feel any reluctance in complying with the alternative contain'd in the proposition in my lettr of the last year.