The sale of Mazzei’s lots is at length concluded and the purchaser having deemed it necessary for me also to sign the deed as co-attorney with yourself, altho’ by a separate instrument, which being special did not revoke the power given to you, I have not hesitated to do so. I now forward it for your signature, and as that must be certified by some court, I must ask the favor of you to execute it before such witnesses as will be sure to attend a court, presuming it may be inconvenient to you to attend yourself. still I must request you to have the goodness to get it back from the clerk with the proper certificate, and to re-inclose it to me, as I shall have to acknolege it before our court, which being three weeks distant I have thought it best in the mean time to send it on to you. with every wish for your health & happiness, accept the assurance of my continued esteem & respect

Th: Jefferson