How it is with you I know not, but if I am rightly informed, I am yet alive and not dead. And to prove it to you, I will tell you how I live. I sleep, 12 or 13 Hours, Smoke 10 or 12 Pipes, read 5 or 6 Pages, think of 19 or 20 Ideas, and eat 3 or 4 Meals, every 24 Hours. I have either mounted above or sunk below, I have not Penetration enough to say which, all Thoughts of Fame, Fortune, or even...
2From John Adams to William Crawford, October 1758 (Adams Papers)
Braintree, October? 1758. Printed: JA, Earliest Diary The Earliest Diary of John Adams , ed. L. H. Butterfield and others, Cambridge, 1966. , p. 91 , with identifying note on the recipient at p. 92 . Printed : ( JA, Earliest Diary The Earliest Diary of John Adams , ed. L. H. Butterfield and others, Cambridge, 1966. , p. 91 ).
3From John Adams to William Crawford, October – November 1758 (Adams Papers)
Braintree, October–November? 1758. Printed: JA, Earliest Diary The Earliest Diary of John Adams , ed. L. H. Butterfield and others, Cambridge, 1966. , p. 99 . Printed ( JA, Earliest Diary The Earliest Diary of John Adams , ed. L. H. Butterfield and others, Cambridge, 1966. , p. 99 ).
4From George Washington to William Crawford, 20 July 1757 (Washington Papers)
You are ordered forthwith to go in pursuit of Wm Smith, a Deserter from the aforesaid regiment, and to use your best endeavours to apprehend and bring him to justice at this place. If he shou’d resist, and stand upon his defence, contrary to the Laws of the country; you are in that case, to fire upon him as an Enemy. Given &c. this 20th July 1757. LB , DLC:GW . In the list of deserters...
5From George Washington to William Crawford, 13 September 1767 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: to William Crawford, 13 Sept. 1767. On 29 Sept. Crawford wrote to GW : “I was favioured, with two Letters from you, one dated the 13th, and the other the 17th instant.”
6From George Washington to William Crawford, 17 September 1767 (Washington Papers)
From a sudden hint of your Brother Val[entin]e I wrote to you a few days ago in a hurry, since which having had more time for reflection, I am now set down in order to Write more deliberately, & with greater precission, to you on the Subject of my last Letter; desiring that if any thing in this shoud be found contradictory to that Letter you will wholely be governd by what I am now going to...
7From George Washington to William Crawford, 13 November 1768 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: to William Crawford, 13 Nov. 1768. On 7 Jan. 1769 Crawford wrote to GW : “By V. Crawford Receved your Letter dated Novr 13th.”
8Memorandum to William Crawford, 24 November 1770 (Washington Papers)
Colo. Croghan and I being upon terms for a tract of 15,000 acres of Land, I have agreed to give him five pounds Sterling a hundred for this quantity, subject to a Quitrent of two shillings sterlg per hundred & no more, after the expiration of twenty years, provided you shall like the Land upon Examination of it. I must therefore beg the favor of you to deliver the enclosed letter to him (first...
9From George Washington to William Crawford, 11 March 1771 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: to William Crawford, 11 Mar. 1771. On 15 April Crawford wrote to GW : “I Receved yours of March the 11th.”
10From George Washington to William Crawford, 6 December 1771 (Washington Papers)
The inclosed I write to you in behalf of the whole Officers & Soldiers; & beg of you to be attentive to it, as I think our Interest is deeply concerned in the event of your dispatch. I believe from what I have lately heard, that there is no doubt now, of the Charter Government taking place on the Ohio; but upon what terms, or how the Lands will be granted to the people, I have not been able to...