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.

     AS we hope that the time is not far distant when we shall be enabled to close our executorial duties, we feel anxious to do so under such a sanction as to prevent all future disputes when we are gone. Our accounts to the last of the year 1819 have been settled, under orders of Fairfax Court and approved. The only difficulty we apprehend, and wish to avoid, is, the settlement of the individual accounts of the legatees; and this difficulty consists, as we apprehend, principally in the mode of calculating the interest.

     AS we hope that the time is not far distant when we shall be enabled to close our executorial duties, we feel anxious to do so under such a sanction as to prevent all future disputes when we are gone. Our accounts to the last of the year 1819 have been settled, under orders of Fairfax Court and approved.

     I acknowledge the rect of your favor of the 27th Ulto.

I have settled fully with Mr Herbert on the Terms you mention except that I have made the interest on his bond for the $1086 due on the McLeans business to run from 1st July 1822 somewhat later perhaps than the day he recd the mony, but before which he shd not have invested it—  The difference at most is trifling— The $2 is a mistake as I paid it in 1821 &; have detailed it in my acct.

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.

Before I proceed to business, I must account for my long but involuntary silence. During the second day of the April term of this Court, I was, whilst on the Bench, attacked by a violent pleuresy which terminated the Session, as it had nearly done the life of your friend. I anticipated that event myself, as did most of my friends.

In answer to your letter, I beg leave to assure you that neither from the papers of Genl Washington, nor from any conversation with him during his life, had I cause to suspect that he considered your father as having been unfriendly to him at any period during the revolutionary war or afterwards. When my father sent me to Philadelphia in the wither of 81-2 with a view to study of the law, the General happened to be in this city, and kindly undertook to superintend the necessary arrangements for my establishment.

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.

     The arrangement I have made with Doctor Peake to which the release accompanying this relates is intended SWth further to secure Walkers debt & places it beyond all question— you will please put your signature opposite to the lower Seal & acknowledge in the presence of two Witnesses & return it to me— Having Company I wrote in great haste. Affectly yrs

     The feelings of Mrs. Washington and myself have been so much wounded by some late occurrences at this place, that I am compelled to give this public notice, that permission will not in future, be granted in steam boat parties, to enter the gardens, or to walk over the grounds, nor will I consent that Mount Vernon, much less the lawn, shall be the place at which eating, drinking and dancing parties may assemble.

I observe this day, that the Millet, which you induced me to try this year, is heading very fast, altho it was sown only a few days before my return home. As soon as I discovered its forwardness, I searched all the books on farming, in my possession, that I might be prepared for the proper management of it when it shall be fit to cut. I can find nothing said respecting the time, or the mode of harvesting it—saving the seed, or curing the Stalk & leaves. I have not the 4th vol.

     I owe to your kindness, I presume, a work lately sent to me from Phila. of which you are the author, & for which I beg leave to return you my very sincere thanks. Company & a variety of engagements have hitherto prevented me from reading it; an employment in which I anticipate great pleasure & improvement. I am with much respect & esteem Rev'd & Dear Sir yr mo. ob. Servt

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.

After introducing to you my amiable young friend Maurice Herbert, who goes up with a view to take all the Wine you may leave, I have to request that you will write me as much at large as your time will admit, how the Court is going on? what Cases decided? what likely to be decided? And when you think with Certainty of adjourning? Above all, take care of your own health— neither the Judiciary, nor your Country can spare you. farewell—Affectly yrs