Mr Bushrod Crawford being desirous to enter into the navy of the U.S. has requested me to introduce him to your notice. This I do with the less reluctance, having known him from his infancy, and feeling perfectly satisfied that he will not disappoint the expectations of friends, or those which his Country will have a right to form of him. He is a young gentleman of uncommon merit, & cannot fail, I think, to make a valuable Officer should he be gratified in his wish of obtaining an appointment. I have the honor to be Sir Yr mo. ob. Sevt

     July 25th 1813 at the request of Judge B. Washington Made the following Survey at a stake above a bridge on the North side of Lewis Mill Road thence along sd Road N. 73 W. 171 poles to the corner of a cleared field, extend the sd course of poles to get clear of a fence thence N. 16 E. 29 poles thence N. 3 1/2 E. 42 poles thence N. 31 E. 19 poles thence N. 51 E. 22 poles thence N. 72 E. 66 poles thence N. 54 1/2 E. 21 poles to a tall sweetgum thence N. 34 E. 20 poles thence N. 20 1/2 E. 38 poles thence N. 28 E. 28 po. thence N. 36 1/2 E. N. 37 E.

The grand Sachem, one of your acknowledged Uncles, not having been much accustomed to admiralty proceedings has propounded a question to me, about which he entertains some doubt, and wishes to know whether it has occurred in any of the Courts of my Circuit. I informed him that you would be the most likely of all our brethren to have met with the case & perhaps decided it, & I promised to mention it to you.

I have some surveying to do at this place which I should be very glad to get you to execute & this as early as your convenience will permit, as I wish to lay off my ground before I fallow for my wheat crop.

Please leave a letter in the post office mentioning at what time I may expect you. I am Sir yr mo. ob. Servt

     After my grateful Acknowlegements of your Attention to the Circumstances of my Sires' Land, and the agreeable Information transmitted by you on that Subject, I proceed to answer your Inquiries concerning Mr Milnor.

     The Court of Appeals adjourned last Spring without a decision in the case of Carter vs. Carter. Were it not for this large undetermined claim, it would give me pleasure to acquiesce unconditionally in your proposal to pay the whole amt of my claim on the 1st January 1815.

     Since my return to Virga, I observed by one of our papers, that our Legislature at its Session in may, had passed a law for the relief of all persons whose lands had become forfeited by omissions to enter them on the Commissioners books, or to pay the taxes due on them. I immediately wrote to chief Justice Marshall requesting him to call upon the auditor, & to obtain for me all the information necessary to enable me to secure your Son's tract of land. I have now recieved his answer, the purport of which I take great pleasure in communicating to you.

I received on my return from North Carolina your favor inclosing a check on the bank of Virga for $500 being my share of the third instalment from Mr Wayne.

I hope this letter will reach you on your return to Mount Vernon safe from the Enemy and what I deem more perilous, the dangers of the roads to & from Philadelphia— On our return Judge Livingston & myself suffered inconceivable anxiety from the unparelled state of the roads, and he received an injury from which I fear he has not yet fully recovered.

I have the honour to introduce to your acquaintance Mr Simeon Putnam, the gentleman, whom I have engaged, at the request of Mr Turner, to be tutor to his children. He is a very respectable and excellent young man, whom I recommend to your notice, with great pleasure, being assured that he is every way worthy of your attention and not doubting that he will entirely answer the wishes of your friend. With respects to Mrs Washington, in which Mrs Quincy joins I am very respectfully yr hle st

there is an account standing open in the day Book of Captain Mathew Sleght Late of this place dated the 30 day of November 1776 wich runs thus

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By a box of spermacity Candles weighing 35 pounds 5s per pound by his servant —£8:15..0["]

     Your last letter, in addition to the statement made me by Geo. Washington, will induce me to dismiss Bushrods Suit against you, & to take the provision made by his fathers will in discharge of the Sum which Colo. Washington recd as his guardian from the Executors of Genl Washington. I shall do this, not because I am at all clear that the provision is equal to his claim, but because I wish to settle his affairs as speedily as possible, and the difference, if any, against him, cannot I presume be considerable.

Whilst I was in the City Mr Key called upon me, & upon my informing him that it was our wish to sell the City property, he stated that he had no doubt that he could obtain at least $10,000 for it, which he would endeavour to do if we would write him to that effect. In that case, he would have the money paid into Court & then get an order for paying it over to us so as to render any bond from you unecessary. I am clearly of opinion that this will be our best plan, & if you concur in it, I will write Mr Key accordingly. I am Dear Sir Affectly yrs

     I recd your letter of the 2d— My nephews imprudent purchases at the sale of his father's estate cannot, I presume, have frustrated your purpose of his encumbering Laurel Grove from the mortgage, further than the amount to which those purchases extended, and to that amount I am willing that the land should continue liable, until it can be ascertained, on whose side is the balance of account. All I ask, or can expect is, that you will pay the balance of the mortgage, leaving this sum, for the present, for me to pay out of the Trust property.

     My nephew Bush. Washington having conveyed all his estate to me for the payment of his Debts, I shall be compelled in the first place, and as soon as possible to sell his land in Westmoreland, upon which I understand there was a mortgage for a considerable sum of money given by his father to Mr Barnet.

I have recd from Mr Kirkland a letter containing [the] following paragraph.

 “I have not learned Mr Turner's tutors salary. When I shall know this I can soon ascertain whether a suitable person can be obtained. An excellent young man 22 years; but very discreet, though young thinks he may like the offer.”

     The indulgence asked for my Nephew until I could dispose of his property, having been refused, I have been compelled to borrow the money to satisfy your present claim. I requested my friend to call at the Farmers bank this morning to discharge the bonds, when to my great disappointment he was informed that they had not been placed there for collection.

     In my letter to you of the 4th Novr I mentioned that I would send you a deed to Mr Minton for the 120 acres of land which he has purchased, & expressed my willingness to sell him¹ our interest in the other tracts either by the acre as stated in the Deeds or by survey to be made.

     I presume from your letter of the 19th Instant (which I have received) that your Nephew has not informed you of the reasons which induced me to sell my land on Coan River, in the purchase of which he has unfortunately become involved, & which from the first moment of our interview, I beged him not to be concerned with.¹ My object in making this sale was to provide a fund to meet the payment of the frying Pan Claim which was then in Litigation.

Some days ago my nephew Bush. Washington conveyed property to me in Trust for the payment of his debts. Since then I have met with a notice in the Alexandria paper signed by Mr Timms & Mr Mitchel advertising his Westmoreland land for sale on the 8th of feby to satisfy a debt due to you. This debt consists I understand of the sum of $1417.50 due 1s. Sept. last, & of $1060.12 due 1st of this month.

     Understanding that The Rev'd. Mr. William Meade is desirous of being admitted to the sacred order of Priest, and our Diocese being now destitute of a Bishop, we have to request the favour of you to perform that service during your continuance in town, and to render such other offices as the Church and your own judgement may deem expedient.

     I beg leave to call your attention once more to your bond which became due on the 1st of Sept. last—Also to remind you of that which will become due on the 1st of the next Month— I have before fully explained to you my situation, & distress for money. Should you neglect to take up these bonds very shortly my situation will justify the most prompt measures which can be adopted for a speedy recovery. I am Sir your Most Obdt Servt

     I returned from Phila. the day before yesterday when I had the pleasure to recieve your favor of the 30 Sept.

I take the liberty to introduce to you Mr Wm E. Horner of Virginia who is attending for the second winter, I believe, the medical believer in Phila. He is a young gentleman of respectable connections, good talents and most amiable in his disposition & deportment.

     I am very respectfully Dr Sir yr mo. ob. Serv.

Upon the receipt of your letter I communicated to the intended purchaser my being impowered to sell, and at same time informed him, that I was offered at the rate of One Hundred dollars more, by Mr Minton, for your undivided third, that he had Offered.