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28 €3 2 as the Present State of my Demand Artist M Austin is by the settlement made and Signd by him when Last in phila^ upwards of Ten Thousand Dollars and this besides all his pri- vate account besides his note i now hold of his given me when he was in Bussiness in Middiltown with 3ates—for ^00 Dol- lars in the year 1782 which with Intrest is Now 624 dollar Besides 700 do[ll<Ms3 he owes me for the Account of Manning Merrill which i had to pay for them in London and besides the Intrest on Ten Thousand Dollars which was due me 8 years and not included in the Balence Struck out by a written obligation he gave me to have them adjusted at the Expira- tion of the partner ship in 1800, so that you see if 1.1 Austin has a farthing of any thing left in which he has a Claim I want it as I have not the Most distant hope that he ill Ever pay me the Just Balance due me on his obligation i hold while i live possibly if he Lives and should Succeed My Child- ren may be the better for it--- having given Charles * of the Mines and property that is fix'* and sold him Every thing that is movable I wish you to be Particular in regard to Led shot or ore on hand before the first of June al^rhich make sales of to him and Lee it is Indorsed on my acceptance if he has it with him I have requested him to Indorse the payment on it which is the Same as my Bond, which I did propose to .'jive him for the Balence but I think this just as Legal, these Transaction I tho' unnecessary to make known untill M A and my rartnership Expir^ which being in Jan'y Last I requested Charles to publish a Bisolution of it in zy '.'fythe County—as I wish Every thing of these Transactions to be per- fectly Legal in Law and to have sufficent evidence of it I beg you and Capt Newell to see that they are so for this purpose