Mo? S. Page Esq.
Charles City County
Nov. 8. 1850

My Dr Sir:
Your letter of the 31. October is now before me and I lose no time in replying to it being not a little startled by the annunciation that my land in Union is advertized for forfeiture on account of the taxes in arrear. Mr.s Finnie & Freeman attornies at law at Morganfield have the supervision of my interests in that country and have funds in their hands applicable to this object. I have a letter from Mr. Finnie dated the 3. Sepr. which in stating accounts between us, specifies the taxes as a credit on his part to funds collected by him for me - altho' then I should have every reason to rest secure upon his statement I nevertheless deem it best to enclose directly to yourself a check on the Farmers Bank of Virginia for the amount mentioned in
your letter viz. $92.5/100 and those

Mo? S. Page Esq.
Charles City County
Nov. 8. 1850

My Dr Sir:
Your letter of the 31. October
is now before me and I lose no
time in replying to it being not
a little startled by the annunciation
that my land in Union is advertized
for forfeiture on account of taxes
in arrear. Mr.s Finnie & Freeman
attornies at law at Morganfield
have the supervision of my interests
in that country and have
funds in their hands applicable to
this object. I have a letter from Mr.
Finnie dated the 3. Sepr. which in stating
accounts between us, specifies the
taxes as a credit on his part to
funds collected by him for me - altho'
then I should have every reason to
rest secure upon his statement
I nevertheless deem it best to
enclose directly to yourself a check
on the Farmers Bank of Virginia
for the amount mentioned in
your letter viz. $92.5/100 and those

myself on your goodness to see that
it secures me against hazard.
Be pleased to write me immediately
on your receipt of this.
My tithe to the land in Union
is founded on the following facts.
The land was originally surveyed
and patented to Holt Richeson
for Revolutionary services - by
his heirs it was sold to Patrick
Hendren - by him conveyed to Trustees 
to secure certain debts with
the reservation of 100 acres in the
Deed as the scite of a Town, Hen-
dren died hopelessly unsolvent and
the lands were duly advertized and
sold at which sale I became the
purchaser and received a conveyance 
from the Trustees. Afterwards
the land under a proceeding of the
Superior Court of Union County
was decreed to be sold to pay a
small debt from Hendren to Breasby,
and in consequence of the original

Deed from the Trustees to myself having
been lost in the transmission or sur-
reptitiously taken from the Post
Office the land was sold and pur-
chased by speculators. They refused
to accept the proper sum in redemp-
tion and my lawyers brought suit
to compell them. The proceeding took
place in the names of Hendren's
heirs. To this suit I was finally
made a party and in my answer I
disclosed all the above facts, sending
on with my answer a certified
copy of the Deed from the Trustees
to me. The court decreed accordingly
in favour of the heirs - Since
then one of them who was of age,
(there were two) has conveyed his
moiety by Deed of Record in Union
Office and against the other who
is a minor. I obtained a decree for 
the other moiety except 50 acres of the
Town lot. For that 50 acres a suit

is pending (unless decided at the late
term of the court) to subject that 50 acres
to sale to pay one $10,000 of Hendren's
debts to my father in law which was
assigned to me by his Executor.
You will see then my Dr Sir
a perfect tithe in me to the whole
tract except as to the 50 acres which
will be also perfected so soon as
the care can be brought to trial-
and need not be regarded as presenting 
any impediment to a sale. And
I have thus fully and at large set
forth the tithe to avoid all grounds
of after contest or dispute. Now
for the land I will take $20,000
one fourth in hand and the residue
in payments of one, two and three
years - or if the payments should be
proposed to be changed I will give
attention to propositions - The sum
exceeds what it has cost one but by
a small amount - I mean including
my repurchase under Mr. Samuel's
contract.

I am Dr Sir with great respect
Yrs. John Tyler

PS The land if it had no coal [?] it is nearly if not quite worth the money.