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I should long before this time have given
you the information you required, in your note to Mr.
Saunders, respecting the claim of the late Mrs. Nelson on
the part of the estate of General Nelson given up by his devisees
for the payment of debts, if I had not expected to see you
here with other parties concerned on the days appointed
for the meetings of the visitors of the College. The late Colonel
Hugh Nelson, & Thomas Nelson, son of the General, became
pruchasers, at the sales of the lands, to the amount of about
£2700 out of which the proportion due to Mrs. Nelson,
except the sum of £386 for which she had given an order
in favour of Micajah Crew, was to be paid. This business
has never been settled; but her dividends, estimated at
one fourth of her whold claim, fall considerably short of
the purchases made by the family.

the Bond from General Nelson
to Mrs. E Nelson was in the
Penalty of £11,800. [illegible] £5,900

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Mann Page Junior Esquire
Gloucester

Ro
bert Andrew's Letter
about E Nelson's Legacies &c