I have just recd. your letter of the 28th. April,1 & am relieved from much anxiety by learning that Blake has recovered. Jotham Smith2 told me last Sunday that Dr Rockwell & one Trowbridge3 had died here with the same fever that prevails with you. Dr Bruce however says that he has not seen or heard of any case of it. A melancholy event occurred yesterday at Morrissania. Mrs. James Morris4 rose as well as usual & ate an hearty Breakfast of Oysters, almost immediately after which she was seized with a fit, which after some time went off & was succeeded by another more violent, the last proved fatal. She is to be buried tomorrow at Yonkers.

Mr. Munro paid me on the 28th. April $347.7/100 being the ballance of Interest due on his Bond & also $4500 on Account of principal which ^I^ will put out agreably to your Directions. I have paid your proportion of the tax on the pasture lots being $189.34/100 the Rents in Mr Munros hands being exhausted by the Assessments he has paid. He is now at Mamaroneck.

The house on Warren Street which belongs to you & Mr Munro is one that is now rented yearly by the latter. I was in it last week with him to ascertain the fact. I do not know to whom the lot it stands on was originally rent leased, but I believe to Henry Orr. The house stands not so properly on Warren Street as in it & fronts Broadway— I beg pardon for forgetting to send Mrs. Watkins’ receipts & now inclose them. I took receipts from Mrs F. Jay in my receipt book. If you want them I will cut them out. The Kettles shal & Carpet shall be sent by the first boat. Wm. Watkins has promised to prepare the Sugar—I had no Idea the Bismuth Dr Bruce gave me was so inconsiderable a quantity. He then told me of the great difficulty he had in procuring crude Bismuth. I will obtain some if possible. The Election ended here last night, our Majority is not known, but we certainly have a large one. When I consented to be a Candidate it was understood that our District would be so composed as to render it impossible for us to succeed.5 I should be far from sorry on my own Account if this Election should be declared void— On this point there are opposite Opinions among our friends. Some supposing that Congress having fixed a new ratio between the Cit number of Inhabitants & that of Representatives the old election law of the State is virtually repealed— I will be obliged to you to tell me what you think upon this Question—

I was surprized the Day before yesterday at seeing Tom Rascoe (who formerly lived with you) enter my Office in a Sailors Dress. He told me that 3 years ago he had embarked on board the Schooner Brothers bound on a Voyage to the South Sea for sandal wood & seal skins which were to be sold at Canton. The Crew were to have an Interest in the Voyage. Tom was to receive four Dollars a Month & one Share of the profits, how many Shares there were he had not asked— They accordingly sailed from N. York, doubled the Cape of Good Hope, visited the Marquesas, Marian, & Feejee Islands, and most of the Clusters in the pacific Ocean, & finally touched at Manilla where the Captain sold the Vessel as unseaworthy, paid broke up his Voyage, paid the Crew their wages to that time, & left them to get home as they could. Tom remained here eleven months during most of which time he was sick; he at last got a passage in a portuguese vessel to Macao, from whence he was taken to Canton [illegible] in an english frigate, thro the charity of the Capt. At Canton he was maintained by the American Consul who sent him home in a Ship to Baltimore, from which partly by land, & partly by water, he had found his way here, & now wished to sue his Capt. We are all well. I am my dr father your Affect: Son