Your favr of the 30th March I have just recd & am greatly surprised you should not long ago have known in whose hands your Bond was deposited, as Mr Butler when he assigned it to me directed Mr Carmichael to give you information; & I wrote to you last July or first of August by Captn John Kelly requesting you would take in my Bond which he held of nearly the amount of yours, & that it should be good against your Bond in my possession; having more heard from you on that subject, I addressed <mutilated> you not long since by the way of Leesburg, to