This will be handed you either by Mr Dupont or Mr Banduy, who are manufacturers of gunpowder on Brandywine. The object of the visit which one or the other of those gentlemen purpose making to your part of the Country is to procure a supply of Saltpetre for their works, and understanding that you make considerable quantities of this article they will certainly call upon you.

     At a time when we hoped to recieve mony from you & thought it not unreasonable to expect it, we were greatly disappointed in getting an argumentative letter in which you endeavor to prove that we cannot legally call upon you for payment of any sum until some future period. The ground upon which you seem solely to rely is that for want of a deed, you have not been legally in possession of the land.

     Your letter of the 29th Octr came to the hands of Mr Lewis during my absence from home & could not be answered effectually till my return which was only three days ago. I have lost no time in complying with your request, & now enclose a Copy of the Survey of the Ashbeys bent tract taken by myself this day with all the accuracy in my power. The map, if not perfectly correct is nearly so & will give a tolerably Just idea of the form of the tract; the boundaries are truly copied. I would have sent the original survey if Colo.

     Since my return from Richmond I recd yours of the 11 Inst.