You wrote to me in December last, that as soon as you return’d from attending the Assembly, you would immediately set out for Philadelphia in order to make a final Settlement of our Accounts: This was a Promise very agreable to me, as my late heavy Expence in building five Houses (which cost much more than I was made to expect) has so exhausted my Finances, that I am now in real and great Want of Money. I therefore send by my Son Bache your Bond which you were to discharge in January last. And I hope and entreat that as I have shown my self willing and ready to serve you, you will now in return exert yourself to serve me by paying off the Debt, at a time when I so much want it, which will exceedingly oblige Your Friend and humble Servant