Interesting letter concerning possibly lost records regarding the estate of Col. Ludwig Wettner. Letter was sent to Henry M Morfit, a Washington DC politician.  Obviously Morfit demanded a quick response because the writer says: "I take the earliest conveyance via Baltimore by the steamboat to reply." Morfit must have asked for the Wettner estate records and the respondent says they gave everything to Michael Badger and have nothing to provide. Letter goes on to discuss the heirs of the estate. 

A number of German regiments were raised at the beginning of the Revolutionary War. The colonel of the first regiment was Nicholas Haussegger, who was succeeded by Ludwig Wettner. The regiment protected Philadelphia and fought under Washington at Trenton. It also fought at Princeton and Brandywine and spent the dreadful winter of 1778 at Valley Forge.

Henry M. Morfit, Judge Advocate, Washington DC.

MORFIT, HENRY MASON (?–1865). Henry Mason Morfit, United States emissary to Texas in 1836, was born between 1790 and 1800 in Norfolk, Virginia, where he studied law and was admitted to the bar. For a while he lived in Missouri and later in Baltimore, Maryland. He married Catharine Campbell about 1816 in Washington, D.C. They had sixteen children. During the summer of 1836 Morfit was sent by President Andrew Jackson to investigate the condition of the new Republic of Texas. His report, written in a series of ten letters from August 13 to September 14, 1836, and submitted by Jackson to Congress on December 21, 1836, was favorable to Texas but advised against immediate recognition of the republic, chiefly because of the threat of a new Mexican invasion. In 1861 Morfit was elected to the Maryland legislature. He died in Baltimore on December 1, 1865, and was buried in Washington.