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ask of you. I only wait for an Answer to my own and my brother Charles's letters to Mr. Perry to sell and divide our Bank Stock between us, and than [then] I will put into your Hands all the money that shall be due from him to me, after the payment of these bills to Captain Hill, & two legacies, of two hundred pounds each which my father directed should be paid to two of his Grandchildren next summer, and this I cannot complete at less than a thousand pounds. As you may depend on the truth of what I say there will be no occasion to make any inquiry about it in London. least it be attended with some Inconvenience. I think I have as good as sold the land I recovered of Baylor to Col. George Braxton for six hundred pounds sterling, & hope to convey it to him some time next fall as soon as I can get the money of him I will remit it to you to pay off the mortgage, and when that with the Bond is paid off by the thousand pounds before mentioned, I shall think myself in a fair way of disharging the whole account between us. I did resolve to send for no more Claret, but I find it so absolutely necessary to correct some disorder my constitution is sometimes affected with that I must desire you to send me a hogs head, bottled & wired as usual of the best can be bought in London. I must also trouble you with a small invoice, here inclosed, of some things, which have hither to been forgot, which I desire you to send in some good ship bound for James River. I have here also inclosed, which I had before forgot, a list of afore bills rec'd (received) for Negroes sold, and indorsed by me to Messrs. Cunliffe & Moseley of Liverpoole, which which I must desire you to take up & pay in in case of any Accident or Protest. I am

Sir,

Your Most Humble Serv.