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John Tyler

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John Tyler
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JOHN TYLER (1790-1862). 10th President of the United States; Virginia Governor; U.S. Senator. ALS. Castleton, No. Shore, Staten Island. N. York. Sept. 26, 1857. The purchasers from Mr. Mathias have failed to pay any thing towards the bonds and acknowledge their inability to do so. While I was ready to receive payment from any one who would choose to pay, yet I have refused to change my securities. I shall therefore only look to the original purchasers from me and cannot consent to change them for others. If Mr. Wilson will pay up Mr. Corprews proportion it would be a great accommodation to me and if he would afterward express his desire to me in writing that I would enforce deed in trust I should feel myself obliged in justice to do so, or in fact to take almost any other course against his co-obligors by suit or otherwise that he might suggest. This would be but fair to him – but yet I desire it to be distinctly understood that I mean in no degree to release Mr. Corprews estate from its responsibilities. The las bond you will remember falls due on the 29 inst. When is Mr. Wilson proposes to pay anything I hope he will do so. A certificate of Mr. Bowden that such payment has been made will be equivalent to a discharge pro tanto. Be pleased to write me immediately as my delay here will not extend beyond an early day in October. I am sir, Resply & Truly yrs, John Tyler.The other parties have paid up the interest to 29 inst." Attached integral address leaf which has been torn, the tear extending through the paraph in Tyler’s franking signature.