I have received your letter of the 25 Sept. & another from Mary of the 1st. inst.1 mentions that she & the children were at New York & that Nancy & Aunt Symmes had arrived & were well. I saw less of Nancy here than I could have wished, but she left this city in better health, than she was in when she came, I wish it may continue to improve—& that Marias might also change for the better.

Morris S. Miller2 is here, & wishes to know if you will sell the lands under his charge. He thinks he can sell them to settlers at 3 & 4 Dols an Acre, & that it is better to do so than to let them lay idle. I promised to ask your Instructions on the subject.

In the convention there is manifestly a jacobinical party. They have decided in favor of universal suffrage. Yesterday & today there has been an effort made to replace the old council of Appointment by another not less objectionable— It is too powerful a weapon to be resigned by the party possessing it without a struggle. The how effort however failed, finding that it would not succeed all the leaders except the V. Prest. backed out & when the yeas & nays were called only nine dared vote for it— How to dispose of the power of appointing county Officers is now a difficult problem, and one on which we are much divided.3 For my own part I am very much embarrassed.

I have been sincerely sorry to hear of the Death of Mr. Grant,4 & wish his place may be supplied by as good a Man. I have been applied to on behalf of a Presbyterian Clergyman, or more properly on behalf of his friends, to let them know the salary which the presbyterian congregation of Bedford give to their Minister. I did not know. are you acquainted with it?

I shall rejoice to get away from this place, especially if we do less mischief than I at present fear. It is questionable whether we shall adjourn till next month—5 I am my dear father Your affectionate son