Auburn February 13th. 1845
My Dear Father,
I rec^d a Bond and Mortgage executed by John Farrand
to Solomon P. Jacobs with an assignment thereof by Jacobs to you
for the amount due this day $1564.56 for which ^I this day draw on you and^ you will pleasure-
s and we you check on the Bank of New Burgh.
I make the following statement for your information and
satisfaction as to this Investment which is the same about which
I wrote you in my last letter.
The land consists of 98 acres worth $20 per acre situated in
Mentz near Montezuma in the neighborhood of Hovey’s farm on
which you have a loan. Value of land $2940.00
Jacobs sold the land to Farrand for that price and
Farrand the mortgager paid half the price on all
but what appear in the mortgage. So the land is worth about
double the amount remaining unpaid.
As to the Title. The land was cosigned by the People of the
State of New York by Settlers Patent to Benjamin Beach
18 June 1840. Patent now in my hands and received in the
office of the Secretary of State at Albany.

Beach and wife cosigned to Solomon P. Jacobs by warranty deed
April 7. 1841 deed duly acknowledged and recorded in Cayuga
Clerk's Office April 8th 1841 as appears by the deed in my
hands.
Solomon P. Jacobs cosigned fifteenth October 1844 to John Farrand
the mortgage by Warranty deed
duly acknowledged and recorded in the Clerk office.
The Assignment of the Bonds and Mortgage by Jacobs to you is
herewith sent, it has been duly acknowledged and recorded
and it contains a guarantee of the Bond & Mortgage
Jacobs is an entirely responsible man and the Security
is abundant, and he is as punctual a man of business as any
in the County. By the assignment interest is payable semi annually.
I find two or three judgments against Jacobs of very small sums
where he was security and which has been paid, he is pro-
curing satisfaction pieces of these and the money will remain
in my hands until they are all Cancelled and a certifi-
cate of that effect will be sent to you together with a
statement by Farrand the mortgage admittedly due notice of
his assignment to you and this the sum of $ 1564.56 is
actually due. Interest will commence from this date the first payment ^of which^ will be
due the 13^th day of August 1845.
The mortgage is not signed by the wife of the Mortgager

The mo Her signature is necessary because the land mortgage
was given for ^the^ purchase money, and
Your letter of the 8th instant sela stating that you had
paid the costs in the Wood and Wood rent has just been received.
we shall now have full management of the rent & will bring it
to a close without delay. I have examined the case & have not
a shadow of a doubt of your right to recover.
We wrote as soon three weeks ago to Mr Barton
conveying Christie’s business it was as soon as I got strength cosign
We have not heard from him. We write ^have been written^ again to him today
and hope to have disputes speedily closed.
I am very respectfully
your affectionate son
I shall be in New York the first of May and will stop
at Auburn on the Florida on my way there and we
will see what can be done about the Real estate you
wish to dispose of. The times are so manifestly improving
that there will be no loss in this delay.
We are all well except my arm which gains
strength every day.
Affectionally your son
William H Seward
Samuel S. Seward Esq.

Copy letter of W H Seward
to
Samuel S Seward
Feby. 13. 1845