1From George Washington to John Augustine Washington, 6 May 1755 (Washington Papers)
A very fatiegueing Ride; and long round about brought me to the General (the day I parted with you) at Frederick Town; —This is a small Village 15 Miles below the blew Ridge i o n the Maryland — side of Potomac from thence we proceeded to this place, where we have halted since Saturday last, and shall depart for Wills Creek to morrow. I find there is no probality of Marching the Army from...
2From George Washington to John Augustine Washington, 25 March 1775 (Washington Papers)
Mr Smith deliverd me your Letter of the 16th; but as one is generally in a hurry & bustle in such places, & at such times as these I have only time to acknowledge it, & add that it would have given me pleasure to have met you here —I shall refer you to Mr Smith for an Acct of our proceedings up to this day, & you cannot fail of learning the rest from the Squire, who delights in the Minutiæ of...
3From George Washington to John Augustine Washington, 30 June 1784 (Washington Papers)
On Sunday last, I received an answer from Mr Morris to the letter I wrote him whilst you were here. Enclosed is an extract of it with a copy of the letter referred to —As there appears to be ⟨mutilated⟩ a diffe ⟨mutilated⟩ Whether the engaging ⟨mutilated⟩ Mr Morris at Second hand, will be attended with all the advantages I contemplated—whether new York would be equally as agreeable to you, and...
4From George Washington to John Augustine Washington, 31 May 1754 (Washington Papers)
Since my last we have arrived at this place, where 3 days agoe we had an engagemt wth the French that is, between a party of theirs & Ours; Most of our men were out upon other detachments, so that I had scarcely 40 men under my Command, and about 10, or a doz. Indians, nevertheless we obtained a most signal Victory. The Battle lasted abt 10, or 15 minutes, sharp firing on both sides, when the...
5From George Washington to John Augustine Washington, 18 October 1777 (Washington Papers)
Your kind and Affectionate Letters of the 21st of Septr & 2d Instt came Safe to hand. when my last to you was dated I know not, for truely I can say, that my whole time is so much engross’d that I have scarce a moment (but sleeping ones) for relaxation, or to endulge myself in writing to a friend. The anxiety you have been under, on Acct of this Army, I can easily conceive; would to God there...
6From George Washington to John Augustine Washington, 31 March 1776 (Washington Papers)
Your Letter of the 24th Ulto was duely forwarded to this Camp by Colo. Lee. and gave me the pleasure of hearing that you, my Sister and family were well. after your Post is established to Fredericksburg the Intercourse by Letter may become regular and certain (& when ever time, little of which God knows I have for friendly corrispondances, will permit, I shall be happy in writing to you)—I...
7From George Washington to John Augustine Washington, 26 November 1778 (Washington Papers)
Your Letter of the 2d of last Month—though long on its passage—came safe to hand. There is a mistery in the proceedings of Congress respecting General Lee’s tryal which I am not able to acct for—The Sentence of the Court Martial has been hung up in that body since about the 20th of August, when it should have been approved, or disapproved, without more loss of time than was necessary to have...
8From George Washington to John Augustine Washington, 14 May 1755 (Washington Papers)
As wearing Boots is quite the Mode, and mine are in a declining State; I must beg the favour of you to procure me a pair that is good, and neat, and send them to Major Carlyle, who I hope will contrive them as quick as my necessity requires. I see no prospect of moving from this place soon ; as we have neither Horses nor Waggons enough, and no forage for them to subsist upon but except what is...
9From George Washington to John Augustine Washington, 10 June 1778 (Washington Papers)
I do not recollect the date of my last to you, but although it is not long ago, I cannot let so good an oppertunity, as Captn Turberville affords, slip me. Your favors of the 10th of April from Bushfield, and 8th of May from Berkeley, are both before me, and have come to hand, I believe, since my last to you. We have been kept in anxious expectation of the Enemy’s evacuating Phila. for upwards...
10From George Washington to John Augustine Washington, 16 January 1783 (Washington Papers)
Since the letter which Bushrod delivered me in Philadelphia, I have received your favors of the 24th of July from Westmoreland—and 12th of Novr from Berkley. The latter gave me extreme pain—In Gods name how did my Brothr Saml contrive to get himself so enormously in debt? Was it by purchases? By misfortunes? or shear indolence & inattention to business? From whatever cause it proceeded, the...
11From George Washington to John Augustine Washington, 1 June 1777 (Washington Papers)
I think I stand Debter to you for your Letters of the 22d of April and 11th of May, which are all that have come to hand since my last to you from Morristown. I am now Assembling the Troops of this State, and those Southward of it, at this place which lays about Seven Miles from the Enemys principal post at Brunswick and convenient for following them either to Philadelphia or to the Eastward....
12From George Washington to John Augustine Washington, 29 April 1776 (Washington Papers)
Since my arrival at this place I have been favour’d with two or three of your Letters, and thank you for your kind and frequent remembrance of me —If I shd not write to you, as often as you do to me, you must attribute it to its true cause, and that is the hurry, and multiplicity of business in which I am constantly engaged from the time I rise out of my Bed till I go into it again. I wrote...
13From George Washington to John Augustine Washington, 11 July 1774 (Washington Papers)
The Morning after receiving your Letter of the 4th which came to hand the 8th at Night ⟨I sent⟩ up to Alexa. to ⟨i⟩nquire after your Bacon &c. and to obtain ⟨some⟩ satisfactory answers to your queries, respecting the price of Corn & Wheat than I was enabled to give myself having heard nothing said in respect to the latter since my return home—The Inclosed Letters convey the Sentiments of Mr...
14From George Washington to John Augustine Washington, 15 June 1783 (Washington Papers)
I have received your favor of the 12th of April from Berkley, and am obliged to you for the Acct contained in it of our deceased Brothers affairs. I have since heard that his Widow survived him but a little while. I am also obliged to you for taking upon you the direction of my mothers Interest at the little Fall Quarter, which I believe has been under most wretched management. equally...
15From George Washington to John Augustine Washington, 24 February 1777 (Washington Papers)
Your Letter of the 24th Ulto from Mount Vernon came duly to hand, and I thank you for the visit to Mrs Washington—I do not recollect the date of my last to you, but nothing of any great Importance has occur’d of late—I believe there soon will, as Genl Howe has withdrawn great part of the Troops from Rhode Island in order to strengthen those in this State for I should think, (considering the...
16From 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...
17From George Washington to John Augustine Washington, 12 May 1779 (Washington Papers)
Three of your Letters are before me, and I believe unacknowledged, the first is of decr 12th—the 2d March 31st (by Mr Muse)—& the other of the 19th Ulto by Coll Bull, who I find by the address of your Letter is a General, & must be of the self created Order. The Good news which it is said Congress were possessed of, soon evaporated, and went off like smoak—such as did come to the public,...
18From George Washington to John Augustine Washington, 13 October 1775 (Washington Papers)
Your favour of the 12th Ulto came safe to hand a few days ago; by it I gladly learnt that your Family were recover’d of the two complaints which had siezed many of them; and confind my Sister—I am very glad to hear also, that the Convention had come to resolutions of Arming the People, and preparing vigorously for the defence of the Colony; which, by the latest Accts from England will prove a...
19From George Washington to John Augustine Washington, May 1778 (Washington Papers)
Your letter of the 27th of Mar. from Bushfield came safe to hand, & gave me the pleasure of hearing, or rather inferring (for you are not explicit) that my Sister and the rest of your family were well. I thank you for your intelligence respecting the pamphlet of forged Letters which Colo. Lee has, & said to be written by me; not one sentence of which you may rely on it, did I ever write;...
20From George Washington to John Augustine Washington, 4 July 1778 (Washington Papers)
Your Letter of the 20th Ulto came to my hands last Night —before this will have reached you, the Acct of the Battle of Monmouth propably will get to Virginia; which, from an unfortunate, and bad beginning, turned out a glorious and happy day. The Enemy evacuated Philadelphia on the 18th Instt—at ten oclock that day I got intelligence of it, and by two oclock, or soon after, had Six Brigades on...
21From George Washington to John Augustine Washington, 6–19 November 1776 (Washington Papers)
I have had the pleasure to receive your Letter of the 6th Ulto. We have, I think, by one Manouvre and another, and with a parcel of—but it is best to say nothing more about them—Mixed, & ungovernable Troops, spun the Campaign out to this time without coming to any decisive Action, or without letting Genl How obtain any advantage which, in my opinion, can contribute much to the completion of...
22From George Washington to John Augustine Washington, 22 July 1776 (Washington Papers)
Whether you wrote to me or I to you last, I cannot undertake to say; but as it is sometime since a Letter has past, and as I expect every hour to be engaged in two busy a Scene to allow time for writing private Letters, I will take an oppertunity by this days post to address you a few Lines, giving a brief acct of the Situation of Affairs in this Quarter. To begin then—we have a powerful Fleet...
23From George Washington to John Augustine Washington, 6 June 1780–6 July 1780 (Washington Papers)
Your letter of the 10th of March came safe, but was rather long on its passage. I have also received the other letter refered to—dated at Mt Vernon last fall. I do not at this time recollect the date of my last letter to you, because—however agreeable it may be to me—I have little leizure for private corrispondencies being, in a manner, wearied to death by the multiplicity of public matters I...
24From George Washington to John Augustine Washington, 12 April 1777 (Washington Papers)
I have been favourd with your Letter from Mount Vernon, and one other of the 8th Ulto which is now before me, from Bushfield. To my great surprize we are still in a calm—how long it will—how long it can remain, is beyond my skill to determine—That it has continued much beyond my expectation already, is certain, but to expect that General Howe will not avail himself of our Weak State, is, I...
25From George Washington to John Augustine Washington, 15 July 1781 (Washington Papers)
A letter to which the inclosed is an answer, was accompanied by one from you—the load of business, & constant hurry which attends me, obliges me to have recourse to shifts to avoid writing, & to husband time. to this you are to ascribe the expedient of sending the Letter of Colo. Lee under a flying seal to you, as it will answer the end of a seperate communication of the same sentiments. I...
26From George Washington to John Augustine Washington, 18 July 1755 (Washington Papers)
As I have heard since my arrivl at this place, a circumstantial acct of my death and dying Speech, I take this early oppertunity of contradicting both the first , and of assuring you that I ⟨ illegible ⟩ of the livg by the miraculous care of I have not, as yet, composed the latter. But by the all powerful dispensatns of Providence, that I have been protected me beyond all human expectation
27From George Washington to John Augustine Washington, 29 June 1777 (Washington Papers)
Whether it is owing to your not writing to me, or to the miscarriage of Letters, I cannot undertake to say; but certain it is, I have not received a Letter from you for some considerable time. Finding Genl Howe was Assembling his whole Force (excepting the necessary Garrisons for New York &ca) at Brunswick, in this State, I began to collect mine at this place; (a strong piece of ground) ten...
28From George Washington to John Augustine Washington, 27 July 1775 (Washington Papers)
On the 2d Instt I arrived at this place after passing through a great deal of delightful Country, covered with grass (although the Season has been dry) in a very different manner to what our Lands in Virginia are. I found a mixed multitude of People here, under very little discipline, order, or Government—I found the Enemy in Possession of a place called Bunkers Hill, on Charles Town Neck,...
29From 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...
30From George Washington to John Augustine Washington, 20 June 1775 (Washington Papers)
I am now to bid adieu to you, & to every kind of domestick ease, for a while. I am Imbarked on a wide Ocean, boundless in its prospect & from whence, perhaps, no safe harbour is to be found[.] I have been called upon by the unanimous Voice of the Colonies to take the Command of the Continental Army—an honour I neither sought after, nor desired, as I am thoroughly convinced; that it requires...