dureing the life time of my Grandfather Mask Leake (of Abbemarle County) he made me a gift to a claim of Millitary Land which he1 purchased of a soldier by the nam of Geo. Malcome who faugtht at the battle of the meddows under Washington in the year 1754 It appears from examineing the registers office that on the 15th day of December 1772 In grant to savage and others of 28627 Acres of Land on the Ohio river this Malcome is one of the Grantees, now the object of my Trowbleing you is that my Grandfather when he purchased the claim of Malcom he took a receipt for the money expressive of the Object for which he paid it &c my Grandfather in his life time told me that Malcome and himself some short time after the purchase went to Albemarle court with a view, to make a transfer of the Title to the Land by Deed or acknowledment in court of the purchase or something of the kind by which to transfer the title in the best possible manner the nature of the case would admit of—If I mistake not he said you were at the time the presideing member of the bench and that you recommended to them to wait till the Grant or pattent Ishued when they might make a formal conveyance by Deed &c which advice was intended to be pursued but Malcome died or went off or something of the kind—That the Troublesome times came on or rather continued and was then succeeded by the revolution this circumstance braught about—and put off his further attention to this business for a great Lapse of years and he being naturally somewhat delitary never saught farther into the subject—some year or two before his death, which took place sept 1813. he made me a gift of the claim to the Land and papers relating thereto &c—the matter has been neglected by me untill a short time past seeing a decree of the chancery court for the2 stanton district. Malcome name mentioned &c. and on examination of the registirs office finding him one of the Grantees and further understanding that there has been claims of a less auspicious nature established and recollecting to have heard my Grandfather relate the above named circumstances relating to you It accured to me to write you requesting you to recur to in memmory and say if you could recollect the circumstances, If the multiplisity of public business and varied senes through which you have passed have not eraced the recollection from your mind, your answer to this after trying to turn your memmory to the subject will be thankfully received and gratefully acknowledged by   Your Ob st.