41From George Washington to John Augustine Washington, 27 March 1786 (Washington Papers)
Your letter of the 17th did not reach me till yesterday afternoon. Whence your overseers apprehensions proceed, I know not; for if I recollect right, I gave him, myself, assurances of the plan when I was in Berkeley in the fall of 1784; and since, have informed Mr. Muse that he was to receive a confirmation of the lease. It is true that, being a nonresident on the Lott he would have been...
42From George Washington to John Augustine Washington, 1 October 1786 (Washington Papers)
If you receive this letter at this place before I return home, it is to observe how singular it is that I should always be from home or upon the eve of leaving it, when you come here. An appointment which cannot be dispensed with (and which was made by myself before I had any intimation of your intention of taking this on your way down) obliges me to the Great, & perhaps the little Falls to a...