561From George Washington to the Earl of Buchan, 20 February 1796 (Washington Papers)
Having seen several persons from the vicinity of your estate of Dryburgh Abbey, with your Lordship’s certificates of their honest and orderly deportment; (one or two of whom I have employed, and found deserving the charecter) I take the liberty of troubling Your Lordship with the perusal of the enclosed annunciation of a design, wch I have had in contemplation two or three years, but lately...
562From George Washington to William Cooper, 20 February 1796 (Washington Papers)
The lands which I hold on, or near the Mohawk river, are in Partnership with Mr Clinton (late Govr of New York) who has had, & continues still to have (by a Power of Attorney) the disposal of them. It is not in my power to inform you at what price he has lately sold any—but of this you can easily be informed by a line to that Gentleman. Or if you desire it, I will write to him myself on the...
563From George Washington to Thomas Pinckney, 20 February 1796 (Washington Papers)
Permit me to intrust the enclosed dispatches to your care, and to request that they may be forwarded agreeably to their directions; but by private conveyances, rather than by the mail; as I am not disposed to saddle those Gentlemen with the Postage. Having come to the resolutions which are implied in the enclosed printed notification, I take the liberty of transmitting them to you; for no...
564From George Washington to Thomas Pinckney, 20 February 1796 (Washington Papers)
Your letter of the 10th of October from Madrid, has been duly received. With regret, I read the request which is contained in it; but the footing on which you have placed the matter, forbids opposition, or even persuasion on my part that you would recede from it; altho’ the difficulty of supplying your place to my satisfaction; to the satisfaction of your country; or of the Court you will...
565From George Washington to John Sinclair, 20 February 1796 (Washington Papers)
When I last had the honor of writing to you, I had hopes—tho’ I must confess they were not of the most sanguine sort—that I should have been enabled ’ere this, to have given you a more satisfactory account of the business you had been pleased to commit to me, than will be conveyed in this letter. Doubts having arisen, from peculiar calls on the Treasury of this country for money (occasioned by...
566From George Washington to William Strickland, 20 February 1796 (Washington Papers)
Permit me to congratulate you on your safe arrival in England, from your visit to America; and to hope you have experienced no inconvenience from the voyage. Having resolved to rent my farms at Mount Vernon—a measure which has been in contemplation two or three years, but not matured until lately—I take the liberty (as you have some knowledge of them) to trouble you with the perusal of a...
567[Diary entry: 19 February 1796] (Washington Papers)
19. Clear with the wind at West & rather cool.
568From George Washington to Benjamin Walker, 19 February 1796 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: to Benjamin Walker, 19 Feb. 1796 . On 25 Feb., Walker wrote GW: “I have waited to reply to the Letter you honored me with of the 19 inst.”
569[Diary entry: 18 February 1796] (Washington Papers)
18th. Wind at No. Et. and raing. all day. In the Night Snow abt. one inch thick fell.
570[Diary entry: 17 February 1796] (Washington Papers)
17. Clear, & remarkably fine with the Wind Southerly.