I received yours of the 19th this afternoon, and yesterday received orders from General Hamilton to prepare for the funeral rites of our departed General, on Thursday next.1 I have put every thing in the necessary train of execution, preparative to the reception of his final orders, which I expect to receive in the course of the night; and last night I determined to erect a monument to his memory, and penned the enclosed.2 This morning, consulted the field officers of the brigade, who cheerfully consented to share the expense. It will be erected on the centre in front of the cantonment, of white marble, engraved with black letter, on a mound to be raised for the fixture of the pedestal of the monument. Its rear will be conical, adorned with military trophies in black lines; its front will bear the inscription enclosed. I wish the President could spare time to overlook it, and make such alteration as may strike him as necessary.

I wrote you the day before yesterday, to which refer.3 Present me respectfully to all. My love to my baby and you.

In haste, yours,

Whilst in Unison with the Sympathetic Sorrow of a Nation; I unite in Deploring the Loss; it has sustained of a Father, Friend and Benefactor. I intreeat Madam, that You would permit a Heart deeply penetrated with Your loss, and shareing Personally in Your Greif; to mingle with You the Tears which flow for the Partner of all Your joys and sorrows.

Deep as the Wound You have Sustained is, and irreparable as the Stroke must be, May that Religion to which You have ever been an ornament afford You Support, and from that Being who has promised to be a Husband to the Widow, may You derive Consolation is the fervent Prayer of / Your truly sympathizing Friend

Mr shaw will be the Bearer of this to you it is so long Since You saw him, that I presume he will want an introduction to your recollection, tho not to your Heart. he will bring to your Remembrance those agreable Days spent under his Fathers Roof, whilst expectations, and anticipation Presented you prospects of future felicity and enjoyment, before you had seen or experienced the checkerd Lot, to which we are all Heirs.1 If you have experienced your evil days— those of your Prosperity and success I hope and trust will be much more abundant—

Mr shaw is going to Mount Vernon the bearer of Letters upon the Melancholy event which has Made mourners of a whole Nation; yet as it respects the great and Illusterous Character whom we all lament, I think his situation enviable length of days, would to him according to the order of Nature only have been subject to the 83 weakness and decays of time, and he had lived to honor to Glory, and to immortality, as far as Mortal could— his fame wanted no extension, his Character no addition—2 thus we trust his Great Lord and Master call’d him to a higher Sphere, to a more exalted station, to unite him with Beings of a superiour order.—

I last week had Letter from your Mother.3 she was well, and your Father has had better Health since his last sickness than for a long time before—

My Love to Mrs Cranch who has risen in My Esteem and Regard from her Prudence, her discretion and Many other excellent qualities which have Distinguished her Character through the troubles and difficulties you have both had to encounter—

I most sincerely hope that Your future exertions will be crowned with Success—

I am My Dear Nephew / Your truly affectionate / Aunt