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His Excellency W Carrol

Sir

General Brady requested the when
he was here last spring to notify you
as early as practicable the result
of the Case of Wiggins et al. vs Excr of
Mason Lee in which the state of Ten-
nessee is interested The case was
not tried on Account of the Accidental
absence of all the Councel [sic] employed
by the Excr. but myself I should
have complied with the general's
request earlier but have but now
return home from a long & fatiguing
Circuit & from attendance on the
legislature, I had arranged
every thing so as to insure a trial
at the next spring Court but the