1From George Washington to Alexander Spotswood, 31 July 1799 (Washington Papers)
I have been duly favoured in the receipt of your letter of the 25th instant; and thank you for the kind information given in it respecting the removal of Mr Duval to Kentucky; and your intention of embracing the earliest opportunity of enquiring after the Conveyance from the deceased James Mercer, Esqr. &ca to me. Enclosed is the Deed from Genl Lee to me, for the Land he sold me; lying on...
2From George Washington to Alexander Spotswood, 20 July 1799 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: to Alexander Spotswood, 20 July 1799. On 25 July Spotswood wrote GW acknowledging receipt of a letter from GW of the “20 Inst.”
3From George Washington to Alexander Spotswood, 15 July 1799 (Washington Papers)
Your wishes, respecting your Son George, I have communicated to the Secretary of the Navy; although it is contrary to a determination I had entered into (when I left the Chair of Government) not to be the medium through which applications for appointments should be made; and from which I have not (before) deviated, except in the Military line, since it has been made my duty, consequent of my...
4From George Washington to Alexander Spotswood, 25 March 1799 (Washington Papers)
I do not know how it happened but so it is, that a considerable interval always takes place between the date of your letters to me, and my receipt of them; notwithstanding I send regularly to the Post Office every other day, and frequently every day, when I have reason to expect letters on business. Premising this, I have to add, that your letter of the 15th instant enclosing one from Mr Short...
5From George Washington to Alexander Spotswood, 4 November 1798 (Washington Papers)
Enclosed herewith are Articles of Agreement drawn by Mr Anderson for your present overseer to sign; similar to those which my Overseer at the Mansion house is under. He, as well as myself, are desirous to have all these matters fixed, that there may be no demur at a season when it may be too late to provide another. It is always best to reduce agreements of this sort to writing—and every good...
6From George Washington to Alexander Spotswood, 24 September 1798 (Washington Papers)
As the Season is far advanced for good Overseers to be disengaged, and as you had heard nothing from Richard Rhodes at the date of your last—Septr the 16th—and a Man in your neighbourhood one —— Garrett Overseer for a Mr Fontain Murray at a ⟨place⟩ called White Plains near Fredericksburgh, has been strongly recommended to me by Mr Betton & others, & who was willing to come to me, but informed...
7From George Washington to Alexander Spotswood, 14 September 1798 (Washington Papers)
Your letter of the 11 th came to my hands yesterday. Two causes, indeed three, prevented my answering the first, after your return to New Post sooner; namely—debilitated health, occasioned by the fever, wch deprived me of 20 lbs. of the weight I had, when you & I were at my Mill Scales, & rendered writing irksome; the expectation of hearing from you again, relative to the Carpenter & Farmer,...
8From George Washington to Alexander Spotswood, 15 July 1798 (Washington Papers)
Your favour of the 6th inst. has been duly received, but it came to hand when I was so much engaged, as not to be able to give it an earlier answer. With respect to the land which Mr Short was authorised to purchase for me, I have nothing to add, save a wish that he would get it as much under the price limited, as he can; for I have been disappointed in the receipt of money where I thought no...
9From George Washington to Alexander Spotswood, 30 March 1798 (Washington Papers)
Your letter of the 23d instant only got to hand last night—and whether this reply to it may reach you in time, is questionable. Your suggestion I have adopted; and you will perceive by the enclosed letter to Colo. Marshall, left open for your perusal—sealing—and forwarding, that I have authorised that Gentleman in case Mr Short should make the purchase from Mr Hite, to draw upon me at Sixty...
10From George Washington to Alexander Spotswood, 11 February 1798 (Washington Papers)
Your letters of the 14th Ulto & 6th instt have been duly received. The receipt of the first, would have met with an earlier acknowledgment, had I not waited for the coming of the latter, agreeably to your assurances of forwarding one, so soon as the documents could be obtained from the Records in Richmond. The description which you have been at the trouble to give me in your former letters, of...