Yesterday on my return from the upper country I found your letter of the 8th. of April & immediately deposited with the clerk of the district court the copy of the title of your reports.

    In the case mentioned in your letter, our practice is, to enter Judgmt for the penalty of the Bail bond. This Judgmt is under the contract of the Court, & unless the parties agree on the debt due in the original action, the Court will stay execution until it be ascertaind - The most convenient mode of ascertaining it is, by a speedy trial in the original suit- The Judgmt on the bail bond stands as a security for the debt when ascertained, & for the costs in both Suits— I refer to the case of Carrew—Willing—1 Palt.

I have just arrived here, where I met with Mr Rudd & Perry they succeeded in geting the spotted horse & bridle but did not get the saddle they have got such intelagence of Charles & Nathan as induces them to believe that they are not far from this place conceald, & that it will require some little management to come at them; they have distinctly understood from some Quakersthat they have been recently passing about in this neighbourhood, & were unwilling to give any information about them untill informed that they (t

You favour of the 25th Ultimo was duly received and I am sorry to inform that the notices which had been issued by the commissioner and enclosed in a Letter to the sheriff of Loudon County to be served on Mr Lee again has not been returned and I have reason to beleive that the sheriff to whom the Letter was directed was not then in office to which circumstance perhaps it is attributable tho there is a shamful negligence in the public officers & it is extremely difficult to get either notices or process served and returned where the officer lives out of the District: on

I received your letter of the     Ulto. enclosing a check on this Bank for Eight Hundred and forty dollars payable in carolina notes and drawn by Fielding Lewis Prest. D.S. Land Co. with a request to have it converted into such funds as are current in our Banks and placed to your credit.

Your circular of the 3d January past, requesting my consent to an amicable suit for the settlement of your accounts as Executors of the Estate of General Washington, is before me.

     I have in my possession a deed given by yourself to the heirs of Samuel W. Middleton late of Charles County Md deceased agreably to an Order of Chancery given some time since: which has never been executed by your attorney (-F.

     An accident had occasion'd my absence from hence, at the time your letter of the 30th Ulto arrived here; and the intensity of the recent cold weather, kept me from home during its continuance, so that until yesterday, I did not receive it— Immediately it came to hand I called on the Cashier of the Virginia Bank, to see what arrangement I could make with him for the payment of the draft you now have, and any others you might hereafter obtain, from the President of the Dismal Swamp Canal Co., on that Bank, which should be payable in C

     Understanding that you are to be in Alexandria a day or two, I send you a letter from Mr. Peter respecting the $1500 to be paid to him on account of Mrs. E P. Custis also two other in answer to our circular letter, you will please let Mr. Peter hear from you as early as possible. Very truly yours

I was informed this day by Judge Todd that he should forward by Genl Hardin a draft of a contract prepared some time ago by me. I have lately seen it, and believe that it corresponds with the letters which passed between us.

     I returned only the day before yesterday from Green <illegible> where I had been with my family for a fortnight, which will account for my not attending sooner to the request, contained in your letter.

You are well acquainted with Richard S. Coxe Esqr & know his personal¹ merits & that he has removed to George Town, to pursue his profession in this District. Tho' unconnected with him by relationship or by politics, I feel² great solicitude for his welfare, & would be very glad to aid in promoting his interest,³ and advancing his reputation.

     The young Gentleman who is the bearer of this¹—will present to you for Payment a fee Bill against yourself and Major Lawrence Lewis executors of the late Genl Geo. Washington, due  to—John Leachman esqr Sheriff of Prince William County– for his commission on your <exeon> vs Gerrard Alexander. Amounting to $358.84. Credited by $113.0.0. paid by Mr Alexander leaving a ballance of $255. 84.

After an absence of six weeks I returned here yesterday and found your favor of the 3d inst[ant].

The meeting of the Stockholders of the Dismal Swamp Land Company was held, as the law directs, at Suffolk on the 15th Ulto: and I was directed by an order of the board to deposit in the Bank of Virga in Norfolk the dividends of all absent members which was done.

I return¹ under cover with this the 2d parcel of my letters to Gl W. which you were so obliging as to send me. I am sensible of the delay in fulfilling my promise; but it is of late only that I could conveniently have the desired Copies taken, and I ventured to suppose that the certainty of the return of the originals was the only² circumstance to wch any attention wd be given.

I wrote to you some months since in reply to a letter of yours on the subject of your concerns in the Dismal S. Land Company. You were desirous I should deposit your dividends in th branch bank of Va. in Norfolk, in order to [?] the necessity of your appointing an atto. to recieve them directly from me. I am perfectly willing to do so, but it is desirable that you specify the manner in which the order for such dividend shall be transmitted to you, whether by mail or otherwise.

     I find that Judge Johnson, in his life of General Greene, has mentioned my Father as one of the leading men of the Party in Congress who were at one period of the revolution opposed to General Washington, and desirous of advancing General Lee or General Gates to the command of the army in his place. This assertson of the Judge has excited much surprize not only in myself but in the friends of my Father here.

     Je take le Libertie of writing to vous— Je have heard of vo-tre Character in Louisiana, Where vous sent vo-tre Slaves. Me understand vous got very bon-ne price for leurs bodies.

I have received your letter respecting the wine & beg you to take no farther trouble about it than to request Mr Cazenove, if the wine comes by Alexandria, to send both pipes to me, & to direct the bills to be both presented to me.

On the same day that I wrote to you a few hours after sending my letter to the post office I received yours marked the 26th of May. I must apologize if I can for having so long omitted to answer it.

I have not yet heard whether your session in Philadelphia is over & you have returned to Mount Vernon. I had supposed from your last letter that your tour would be a short one; but not having heard of its being over, I doubt whether you may not be still engaged in Philadelphia.

Your letter of the 21st from Alexandria, gives me great pleasure, not only by its announcing your capacity to bear the Journey, but also your determination to apply yourself seriously to a radical removal of your malady, which requires every attention to remedies, & a perseverance in the application of them.

I received your letter this morning & immediately went to the chancery office & examined the papers in the case of Davenport v Thompson. The case is misstated in the report. The bill was filed by J.D. senr & J.D. jr & states that a certain D.D. mortgaged a tract of land to W. Thompson & discharged the whole amount of the mortgage money. That he afterwards conveyed the land with other tracts to Lewis & Ross to pay debts due to them respectively.

Your letter of the 13th inst. did not reach me until last Saturday, and I now reply to it by the first mail from Charles City Court house.

On my return home after I had the pleasure of seeing you, I made a diligent search among my papers for the letters of Genl Washington, about which we conversed. but not being able to discover them I then recollected that when Mr Walsh first established his newspaper I gave them to him as literary curiosities, and that after printing them the manuscripts were not returned to me,¹ but, as I learnt on enquiry, were probably destroyed with the other contributions to the paper.