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touched some time longer. Tho' my brothers were ready to have consented to the sail [sale] of any part of it to do me a service. Since my fathers will directed in some measure & division of the money, if our occasions required before the legacies should be due upon our giveing security to each other, in this conduct I paid a greater regard to the oppinion [opinion] of the wourld [world] & the children to whom the legacies are payable a great many years hence than to my own interest, being at this time oblig'd to pay Mr. Robert Cary 5 per Cent for one thousand five hundred & thirty eight pounds that I owe him, as you have informed me that it is in your fathers name, I suppose there will be no occasion to send a power of attorney when we shall think it necessary to dispose of the whole or any part of it, if the bills drawn on you chargable to my fathers estate should give you any uneasieness, I desire you will believe that we could not avoid it, & we have gone great lengths with our outports correspondents to prevent larger draughts on you, if we compute right there was a ballance of about two thousand five hundred pounds in your hands on the running accot. after the bills paid & the goods sent last year, & out present bills to Mr. George Braxton for four hundred pounds, to Mr. Wm. Prentis five hundred eight four pounds five shillings & seven pence, to Lord Fairfax sixty nine pounds twelve shilling & five pence, to Lord fairfax eight four pounds six shilling & four pence, to Vincent Pearse thirty five pounds. To Col. Fitzhugh three hundred pound, & to Mr Richd. Chapman sixty pounds. Amounting to fifteen hundred thirty [thirt?] pounds four shilling & four pence, will reduce it to nine hundred sixty six pounds fifteen shillings & eight pence, to which must