1To George Washington from Landon Carter, 25 September 1755 (Washington Papers)
As I know I shall not be troublesome to you with my little intimacy I have ventured to recommend John Sallard to you for a Serjeant he comes by my persuasion and is in Youth and Stature and indeed in Capacity such an one that I cannot be ashamd of[.] His family have been well respected and I shall be pleasd and obligd with any Countenance you shall shew him perhaps he may want a little...
2To George Washington from Landon Carter, 7 October 1755 (Washington Papers)
Captain Peachey calling to give me the Compliment of his departure gives me opportunity of acknowledging the obligation you laid on me in the favour by Mr Brockenbrough. And you must give me leave to encrease the debt by a further recommendation of Mr Peachey From experience I say his Merit has intitled him to every respect I can shew him and I shall forever acknowlege myself mistaken if he...
3To George Washington from Landon Carter, 26 February 1756 (Washington Papers)
The Bearer Mr John Lawson having heard of nothing to discourage his Military inclination now comes to put himself in the Situation of a Cadet he is of a Family in Lancaster descended from the Steptoes by the mother side and I have told him that there are many waiting before him but as I learn there are three vacancys in the Company of Ensigns the number standing before him will be fewer[.] I...
4To George Washington from Landon Carter, 21 April 1756 (Washington Papers)
Mr Swaringham intending up tomorrow for Winchester gives me an opportunity of expressing my great concern for the Death & Defeat of Capt. Mercer and for the dismal apprehension that those who yet Survive the Indian Massacre must necessarily be under And indeed my friend I must add that this Concern is greatly aggrevated when I find by your letter to Colo. Carter that you have suffered your...
5To George Washington from Landon Carter, May 1756 (Washington Papers)
The bearer of this will God willing be my son Landon whose inclinations for the Army have been before discovered but then I had no relish for it because I foresaw in the Number of Masters and one ignorant director many things would fall to an officers lot to account for when every truth received no credit that should be admitted for misadventure for these reasons I put him by but now under an...
6To George Washington from Landon Carter, 20 February 1776 (Washington Papers)
[Sabine Hall] 20 February 1776. Wrote “attacking Paine for publishing ‘Common Sense,’ and urging against independence.” ALS , sold by Anderson’s, Robinson sale21 Jan. 1904, American Book Prices Current , 10 (1904), 636. In his diary entry for 20 Feb. 1776 Landon Carter (1710–1778) of Richmond County, Va., says that he “Wrote to Col. F[rancis] L[ightfoot] Lee and Genl. Washington about getting...
7To George Washington from Landon Carter, 9 May 1776 (Washington Papers)
If ever friendship gave vigor to the nerves of declining Age it will do it now—to enable me to acknowledge the receipt of your Favor March 27. I assure you I endorsed it the history of the evacuation of Boston. A mere Magnum in Parvo; and I read it with great pleasure to all our friends around. Permit me to say that you have made good the Prediction of my first acquaintance with you. A...
8To George Washington from Landon Carter, 31 October–2 November 1776 (Washington Papers)
By Lieutenant Beale of our 5th Regiment I am endeavouring to lead my trembling pen, to the duty of sincerety in friendship, and with a line of respect to ask you my Dr George the momentous question at these times, How do you do? This bearer, if report has not Stationd the Corps he belongs to at Philadelphia, will deliver this letter to you. You will find in him more resolution and modest...
9To George Washington from Landon Carter, 22 February 1777 (Washington Papers)
If any thing could alleviate my feelings for you in your Pro virili retreat indeed! A Small remnant of an army, who respected their general & their country, more than they did a visit to their wives and families, under all the ravagements & ravishments of an enimy, if not properly withstood: I say if any thing could alleviate such feelings, it was my active anxiousness, to encourage the...
10To George Washington from Landon Carter, 30 July 1777 (Washington Papers)
To hear of you, conducting our opposition to the feelings of an approaching Slavery, with an unremitting constancy, cannot but give every individual concernd, an inexpressible and grateful Pleasure. But to hear from you, whilst so engaged is such an uniting, of your Public and Private attachment, that it must if possible do more in the breasts of friendship; especially when your Virtue...
11To George Washington from Landon Carter, 27 September 1777 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from Landon Carter, 27 Sept. 1777. GW on 27 Oct. thanked Carter “for the good advice contained in your little paper of the 27th Ulto.”
12To George Washington from Landon Carter, 10–20 March 1778 (Washington Papers)
I cannot avoid embracing the opportunity of Captain H. Faunteleroy’s returning to his duty in Camp, to tell you by way of reply to your last kind letter, That were but my nerves at all times as steady as my friendship is, You should be the last man in the World, that should have cause to complain of but a scrip of Paper to you, as you decently did. Permit me to conclude the remembrance of what...
13To George Washington from Landon Carter, 7 May 1778 (Washington Papers)
I have often set down to entertain Mine and my Countrys fri⟨ends⟩ with what should come upermost, by some of these slow movers, tho’ charming officers, rather than not entitle my self to an enquiry how he does; an inquiry which heaven seems to demand of All America, as out of respect to her chosen servant inspired to redeem her from an Approaching Slavery; but an old Companion set—I call age,...
14To George Washington from Landon Carter, 28 September 1796 (Washington Papers)
Your warmest well wisher has not more devoutly desired the pleasure of your acquaintance, than I have ever done; but I could promise myself no success in the attempt, stranger as I am, whilst you have been surrounded by the Formalities of your Office: Therefore I have not yet made my appearance at Mt Vernon, even. The Aurora, Gazzet, has boldly announced your definitive resolve to retire from...
15To George Washington from Landon Carter, 27 October 1796 (Washington Papers)
Owing to my absence from home on the arrival of our weekly post, I did not receive your Favor of the 17th inst. until the 24th at night. I immediately prepared a Letter for continuance of the correspondence, you seemed to be willing to comply with. Upon a review of that Letter tho, I resolved to suppress it on acct of the subject: That was of a nature to involve too much of conjecture. Your...
16To George Washington from Landon Carter, 29 November 1796 (Washington Papers)
Your Queries are very apt ones, and I regret my inabillity to answer some of them so satisfactorily as I could wish, and you might reasonably expect: Arising from my whole life being recluse, & the early part wrapt in contemplation. Altho I wrote in 1794, I had only began the practice in the year my publication alluded to, supposing myself fixed with a Person capable of conducting the...
17To George Washington from Landon Carter, 13 December 1796 (Washington Papers)
There is much Time escaped since I commenced my Reply to your queries, 29th ulmo; owing to my being upon a Party to visit this place; the season having waved that from day to day: I am now fixed here, and shall with pleasure take up the subject. Your 5th quere would properly belong to the last Letter, on account of that confused management which has ever afflicted me: I will only observe, that...
18To George Washington from Landon Carter, 18 December 1796 (Washington Papers)
Without further Preface I will proceed to answer your 10th quere, as to the Period to be prefered for planting the Pease; which will equally be a reply to the 11th, as they hinge very much together. A Field which was planted, in the year 1794, on the 19th to the 21st May, were pulled up about the same time in August: The season warm and pretty dry. I was absent from home so long, in the Summer...
19To George Washington from Landon Carter, 24 December 1796 (Washington Papers)
I am now to give you some account of an Arrangement which I rather wish to adopt, than one I have in real practice. The untowardness, so often complained of as a fatallity, may always be traced to some error in the Man himself, immediate or remote: Howsoever this may be, an untowardness has unceasingly marked my Life. My Plan requires appropriate Farm Houses, Utensils, and inclosures; and I am...
20To George Washington from Landon Carter, 14 February 1797 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found : from Landon Carter, 14 Feb. 1797 . GW wrote Carter on 27 Feb. : “Your favor of the 14th instt came duly to hand.”
21To George Washington from Landon Carter, 12 March 1797 (Washington Papers)
Your favr of the 27th ulmo came to hand three days ago just when I was puting into the Office a Letter of congratulation to meet you at your assylum from the Labors of a weighty Trust. Abstracted from self I can withdraw from an high Idea of the importance of our Loss and am capable of exulting in the calm delights of the Man I love and whom e’er long I may have permission to call by the...
22To George Washington from Landon Carter, 18 May 1797 (Washington Papers)
In pursuance to a conversation I had with you at Mt Vernon I have proceeded as near as I could your wish upon the occasion. I postponed the thing thus long because I thought a personal enquiery would be preferrable to an epistolary one. Upon a question to your Nephew George L. if he had any probable chance of accomodating you, he assured me that he had no prospect at all and advised me to...
23To George Washington from Landon Carter, 8 September 1798 (Washington Papers)
I beg your pardon for this intrusion; but indulged by you as I have been in a late correspondence I am bold to adress to you my own tender concerns: But first let me join my country men in a prayer of thanksgiving to almighty God that he has, in his bounty to us all, rescued from Disease a Life so importantly interesting. To God be all praise! amen. Hovering, and in doubt, over the various...
24To George Washington from Landon Carter, 1 October 1798 (Washington Papers)
Health is a grand object with man; but it becomes all important when the preservation of it in any one person comprehends all the relations of a People; when like a focus the views of all direct to a single point: Permit me therefore to lay before you some leading principles; some conclusions; and some consequent practice, for the security of health. I believe it is a fact generally admitted,...
25To George Washington from Landon Carter, 6 September 1799 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from Landon Carter, 6 Sept. 1799. On 11 Sept. GW wrote Carter : “In answer to your favor of the 6th instant. . . .”
26To James Madison from Landon Carter, 21 November 1802 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
21 November 1802, Rhodes Tavern. Presents a letter from Colonel Taylor and asks for JM’s business hours so he “may avoid intrusion at improper ones.” Thornton came to Washington on the same stage and “will have probably told you my errand to the City is to bring a model of my invention.” RC ( DLC ). 1 p. Dated “Sunday Morning”; date assigned on the basis of a similar letter Carter wrote to...
27To James Madison from Landon Carter, 19 February 1810 (Madison Papers)
Altho the subject of this Letter interests me individually, it yet involves public convenience enough to apologise in some sort for my intrusion, at this time of your deepest engagements. The present period points the attention of high commissioned characters to domestic structures, to such a degree, that I entertain a hope you will afford me your influencial patronage. I was indeed preparing...
28To James Madison from Landon Carter, 8 February 1811 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
8 February 1811, Cleve, Virginia. Apologizes for the intrusion but assumes JM has clerks “who can, by your direction, give me the information which I ask.” Has invented a machine that “in practice promises to gather wheat from the field in such a manner as to save all the waste attendant upon the usual modes used in harvest.” Wishes to know the probable quantity of wheat sown annually in the...
29To James Madison from Landon Carter, 8 May 1807 (Madison Papers)
I thought not to have given you any farther trouble with my concerns till I could produce actual progress; but such is the nature of the case that I must intreat your pardon for the necessary intrusion. Many months ago I met with a man who works in metal & who said he perfectly understood the Lock I purpose using in my new construction of a carriage & that he would execute it for me if I would...
30To James Madison from Landon Carter, 23 January 1809 (Madison Papers)
I now pay my respects to you on the subject of a paper which you politely recieved from me, when I had the honor of visiting you at your seat in the County of Orange, endorsing it "not to be opened but in my presence". I have not yet been able to produce any illustration upon the plan therein inclosed; nor can I do so before your exaltation from the dignified office you now hold. Few men are...