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Thos Ruffin Esqr
Sir
Enclosed you have our Bond by Bruce Murray & Hunter of Bruces Cross Roads Guilford Cy of your State which please collect and remit us your advise as soon as may be will oblige
Yr Obt Servant Dummut Hempsted Petersburg Jany 8th 1822
Dummund Hampsted Jany 8 1823
Thomas Ruffin Eqr Councellor at Law Hillsboro St. N. Ca
[stamp] PETERS.V. JAN 9[/stamp]
Fayetteville, January 9 1822
My Dear Sir,
Mr. Taylors note was not dismissed, & I now return it to you under cover.
Mr. Wright informs me that the arrangement to transfer Mr. Murphys debt in Cape Fear Bank has been made to your satisfaction, & of which Doct. Welby has been advised.
We are all quite well. I am Dear Sir Yours sincerely Geo. McMull
George McMull Jany 1822
20 Thomas Ruffin Esquire Raleigh N C
Caswell Court House Jany 10th 1822
Dr Sir
you have probably heard from some of your friends in this part of the Country of the total ruin of our worthy friend A. D. Murphy Esqr & of the very large sums of money which I have paid and shall have to pay as his surety - They are of such magnitude as to induce in me serious apprehensions of meeting with the same fate which has befallen him -
In his endeavours to give me some small indemnity for & security against my losses, he assigned to me in June last your Bond to him for Ten Thousand Dollars in the whole. As none of the Bonds will be [gap] several years, I did not feel at liberty to mention them to you or ask for any payment. Nor should I now do so were it not for my pressing necessities & for the very heavy demands, exceeding forty thousand Dollars which I shall have to meet with in a short time - Considering the mode in which I unde -rstood your Debt to him was incured & knowing that his Debt to me, towards the discharge of which he let me have these Bonds arose in the same way & hoping from the prosperity which I learn has befallen you of late, that you might conveniently make an advance upon them, I have with great reluctance concluded to request such afavour - I know that I have no legal right to demand payment before the Bonds fall due - & it is with great difficulty that I have [page torn] myself to it & only after satisfying myself