61From George Washington to Lund Washington, 6 May 1782 (Washington Papers)
If the bearer Baren de Closen an aide de camp to Count Rochambeau, Should call at Mount Vernon, I request you will treat him with every civility in your power & furnish him with everything he may require. I am Dr Sir yr Friend &c. NhD .
62From George Washington to Lund Washington, 8 July 1782 (Washington Papers)
I have not been able to discover, from any enquiries I could make—while I was in Philadelphia—that it was necessary to do any thing with the inclosed, to secure the Title—& therefore return them; with the Patents for my Land on which Simpson lives; to be deposited with my Papers. Some indeed were of opinion that yours, as well as other Patents of a similar nature, & under like circumstances,...
63From George Washington to Lund Washington, 21 November 1782 (Washington Papers)
My last letter would have informed you, that I was disappointed in my application at Philadelphia for money, & that I have given up all thoughts of purchasing Dows Land. Since then, I have met with an offer of £2000 York Currency, for which—if I take it, I shall have to pay at the rate of 7 ⅌ per annum, interest. Under this disadvantage and the difficulty I may experience in procuring money...
64From George Washington to Lund Washington, 21 November 1782 (Washington Papers)
The Letter which will be enclosed with this will inform you that since my letter by the last Post I have had the offer of £2000 York Currency & the terms of it—But before you Strike any bargain with Dow & Co. for their Land, I would have you view it critically, & form your own judgment of the quality of it. To do this with any degree of accuracy you must estimate the quantity of improved &...
65From George Washington to Lund Washington, 25 December 1782 (Washington Papers)
I approve of your conduct with respect to Dows Land and am very glad you have bought it whether I get Dulany’s or not; as I have no idea of loosing by it if it will Rent for £120 ⅌ Ann.—which is more than the Virginia Interest of the Sum given, though less than what I am to pay for the loan of it in this State. This circumstance, independant of the desire I have to repay the Money borrowed in...
66From George Washington to Lund Washington, 12 February 1783 (Washington Papers)
Your letter of the 29th of Jany came by the last Post—You do not seem to have considered the force & tendency of the words of yr letter, when you talk of the probability only of sending me "the long promised account" "the irregularity of them"—not you add "for want of knowledge in keeping them but neglect. " "your aversion to writing &ca &ca. " —These are but other words for saying, "as I am...
67From George Washington to Lund Washington, 19 March 1783 (Washington Papers)
I did not write to you by the last Post—I was too much engaged at that time, in counteracting a most insiduous attempt to disturb the repose of the Army, & sow the seeds of discord between the Civil & military powers of the continent, to attend to small matters. The Author of this attempt, whoever he may be, is yet behind the Curtain; and as conjectures might be wrong, I shall be silent at...
68From George Washington to Lund Washington, 6 May 1783 (Washington Papers)
By the last Post I informed you of my intended meeting with Sir Guy Carleton for settling, among other things, a plan for restoring the Negros and other property belonging to the Citizens of the United States. This meeting I have held; & tho it has been interrupted by the indisposition of Sir Guy, which has, this morning, carried him back to New York; yet, I have collected enough to convince...
69From George Washington to Lund Washington, 11 June 1783 (Washington Papers)
I do not blame you for the wages which you gave Evans; I have no doubt of your having engaged him upon as good terms as you could, and as it was my wish to have the work forwarded, this was all I had a right to expect. In one of your letters (speaking of the difficulty of getting workmen) you recommend it to me to engage some of the Enemy who were prisoners with us—Many of whom you say, are...
70From George Washington to Lund Washington, 13 August 1783 (Washington Papers)
I have received your letter of the 30th Ulto with a Catalogue of my Books—When you go next to Abingdon, see if there is any there with my name or Arms in them, & forwd the list. I am truly unfortunate that after all the expence I have been at about my House, I am to encounter the third Edition, with the trouble & inconvenience of another cover to it, after my return. That there can have been...