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stances, but especially after the very generous offers that have 

 been made to him. Should, however, such demands be not 

 only made, but insisted on, you will please to declare in my 

 name, not only that they will never be admitted, but also that 

 the offer already made will be revoked, and other measures pur- 

 sued. You may also, in that case, give Mr. Rolfe to under- 

 stand, at parting, that I shall take care that his Sister, in the 

 Will I have enabled her to make, shall not forget his usage of 

 her. Should he behave handsomely in this business, you will, 

 of course, avoid saying anything to him that would wound his 

 feelings. I should never have had any suspicions of his be- 

 having otherwise than handsomely, had it not been for a speci- 

 men of his manner of making up accounts which I saw among 

 the papers my Daughter brought with her from America, and 

 from the circumstance of his never having answered any of her 

 letters. Though my Daughter is quite willing to renounce all 

 pretensions to her mother's fortune, yet she is naturally desirous 

 to have something that belonged to her to keep in remembrance 

 of her, a string of beads, a ring, or something of that kind, 

 and she desires that you and her Brother would select some 

 article of this sort for this purpose. 



" There is another concern which my Daughter requests that 

 you would settle for her at Concord. Her Grandfather Walker 

 left her a legacy in his Will which has not yet been paid. She 

 desires you would apply to her Uncle, the Hon. Judge Walker, 

 from whom she is to receive this Legacy, for his note of hand, 

 on interest for the amount of it ; and for the interest upon it 

 since it became due, from the iBth October, 1792, when she 

 compleated her eighteenth year. You may at the same time 

 acquaint Judge Walker, that, in case of my Daughter's death, 

 this money will (according to the dispositions of her last Will 

 and Testament) return to the family from which she received 

 it. In the meantime, she very naturally wishes that this prop- 

 erty might be properly secured to her, and that it might be on 

 interest. 



" There is another pecuniary affair which I should be 

 obliged to you if you would settle for myself with Mr. 



