Blount_GP1_Letter_004_46709

Knoxville April 11th 1798 Dear Sir E Your letter of the 20th December by Mr. Samuel Jackson was dilevered to me._ My absence from this place for several weeks, my want of health generally through the winter and a knowledge of the time when you would be here have delayed the answer_ all I recollect of my conversation between you and myself respecting paper of Mr. Allison's where you held or was interested in, is, int the Spring of the year 96 when it was known or believed I was about to set out for Philadelphia where I should see Mr. Allison we had a conservation with respecting him which was in substance, you observed to me you were interested in some of Mr. Almonds paper which lay over for nonpayment in Philadelphia to your Injury and expressed a wish as I was going to Phil adelphia that I would urge Mr. Allison to give it a preference in payment to other [illegible] under similar circumstances_

and so much I told you I would do and so much I did not only as it respected you but all other of my friends in this Country who held his paper _ That you are not benefitted by my thus urging him as already known to you nor was I more successful in urging him to pay me large sums due from himself to me_ I feel myself compelled to observe to you all that as I was not interested in the purchase of the lands by Mr Allison made from Mr. Jackson and Mr Overton you must be mistaken or misun derstood me when you conceived I acknowledged to you that I was interested in that purchase

The same friendly motives which induced me to say to you I would urge Mr. Allison [words lined out] Mr. Allison to give you and my friends generally of Tennessee a preference of payment [3 words lined out] of such of his paper as lay over induces me sincerely to reqret that he has not done so but I expressly deny that I am unable in any degree to you or any other person for that paper_

I conceive it unnecessary at this time to reply to that part of your letter in which you mention the connection between myself & my brothers JG & T Blount - I assure you it gives me pain that any misunderstanding of the true meaning

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in [several words lined out] of what passed between you and myself respecting Mr. Allison's paper should have taken place I do not mean as it respects the Sum in questions so much as it respects our friendly habits and Intercourse and permit me to add that however we may have misunderstood each other upon that point that it is my wish that it may make no alteration in our Conduct to each other in other respects_ I embrace the occasion to repeat to you assurances of my esteem

WM. Blount

Howell Tatom esqr at Mrs. Chisholm's

E Wm Blount Apr 11th 98 Answer about Allison 1798

Judge Tatom at Mrs. Chisholm's Knoxville