At Sight please pay to Colo. Charles Simms or order for value recieved eight-hundred and seventy five dollars the amount of one quarter's Salary due to me as one of the Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States on the first instant yr He Sert

MEMORIAL

Of the President and Board of Managers of the American Society for Colonizing the free people of colour of the United States.

January 14, 1817.
Read and ordered to lie upon the table.

     The American Colonization Society has been enabled by the liberal patronage of their fellow-citizens of the several states, (and it numbers among these friends and contributors many of the citizens of [<2m#>]) to explore the coast of Africa to find an asylum to which the free coloured population of our country might be safely removed.— The annual reports of their proceedings, (accompanying this memorial) will show what their labours have effected.

     I recd, sometime during the last month, your favor of the 20th of January, which I should have acknowledged immediately, if its contents had seemed to require it, and if I had not supposed that my letter to your daughter upon the same Subject would be promptly communicated to you. I can say nothing more at present but to repeat the assurances given to her of my earnest wish to serve you in this, or in any other way in my power, and of the zeal with which I shall exert myself to do so when the occasion alluded to shall offer.

     Since the date of my last letter to you, my family has been visited by an infliction of divine Providence, which, 'tho to us seemingly severe, was, no doubt, designed for beneficent purposes. In the course of about 12 hours, my cherished & beloved niece has been bereaved of an affectionate husband & two children.