S[amuel] Smith to Wilson Cary Nicholas, discusses the George Nicholas children, indicating that both Nancy and Georgeanna are engaged. He suggests that with these two married, that the estate may be able to provide for the rest comfortably and that they can collect their eleventh share when they are at least 21 years old, so that, in the case of Cary, when he turns 21 in 1807, he will be able to leave Kentucky and establish himself elsewhere., 1806 November 06

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