1From George Washington to Daniel McCarty, 30 October 1797 (Washington Papers)
After suggesting (for it did not appear to have been meant, or received as a regular proposition) that the relative value of lands here, and on the Great Kanhawa might be estimated as one to three, & finding that this difference did not comport with my ideas, you requested that I would suggest something on my part. This, after you had candidly stated the predicaments under which your Sugar...
2From George Washington to Daniel McCarty, 3 November 1797 (Washington Papers)
I shall preface this letter in answer to yours of yesterday, with a declaration as sincere as it is solemn, and that is, that if it was in my power, I would take no advantage of you in the proposed exchange of Lands; nor would I wish you to make a bargain with me that either you yourself, or your friends (such I mean as are competent judges) should hereafter say was disadvantageous on your...
3From George Washington to Daniel McCarty, 13 November 1797 (Washington Papers)
Presuming from the tenor of your last letter, that there is no great probability of our meeting in the proposed exchange of lands—unless the difficulties which have occurred can be overcome—I should not have given you the trouble of receiving another letter from me on this subject, had it none been from an expectation that those who have applied to know the terms on which I would dispose of my...
4From George Washington to Daniel McCarty, 13 September 1798 (Washington Papers)
The last time I had the pleasure of seeing Mr McClanagan & your Sister, the former, talking of Western lands, observed that you regretted not having accepted the exchange I had proposed of some of my Kanhawa lands for your Sugarland Tract. For me, it is fortunate you did not, as I have disposed of them on terms infinitely more advantageous, whether the purchaser is able to comply with his...