31From 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...
32To George Washington from John Augustine Washington, 26 October 1777 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from John Augustine Washington, 26 Oct. 1777. GW wrote his brother John Augustine Washington on 26 Nov. , “Your Letters of the 26th of Octr and 7th Instt have come safe to hand.”
33To George Washington from John Augustine Washington, 7 November 1777 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from John Augustine Washington, 7 Nov. 1777. GW wrote his brother John Augustine Washington on 26 Nov .: “Your Letters of the 26th of Octr and 7th Instt have come safe to hand.”
34From George Washington to John Augustine Washington, 26 November 1777 (Washington Papers)
Your Letters of the 26th of Octr and 7th Instt have come safe to hand —by the last, it would appear that a Letter which I wrote you about the 18th of Octr had not reached you which I am exceeding sorry for as, to the best of my recollection, I wrote you very fully on the posture of our affairs and should be exceedingly concernd if it should have fallen into the hands of the Enemy or some...
35From 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;...
36To George Washington from John Augustine Washington, 8 May 1778 (Washington Papers)
Letter not found : from John Augustine Washington, 8 May 1778. On 10 June , GW acknowledged receipt of a letter from John Augustine Washington of the “8th of May from Berkeley.”
37From 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...
38To George Washington from John Augustine Washington, 20 June 1778 (Washington Papers)
Letter not found : from John Augustine Washington, 20 June 1778. On 4 July, GW wrote to John Augustine Washington : “Your Letter of the 20th Ulto came to my hands last Night.”
39From 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...
40To George Washington from John Augustine Washington, 30 August 1778 (Washington Papers)
Letter not found : from John Augustine Washington, 30 Aug. 1778. On 23 Sept., GW wrote John Augustine Washington : “Your Letter of the 30th Ulto came to my hand a few days ago.”
41From George Washington to John Augustine Washington, 23 September 1778 (Washington Papers)
Your Letter of the 30th Ulto came to my hands a few days ago, and gave me the pleasure of hearing that you were all well, and an oppertunity of congratulating you on the birth of a grandchild, tho you do not say whether it be Male or female. The proceedings of the General Court Martial in the case of General Lee, has lain with Congress since the 20th of last Month for their approbation, or...
42To George Washington from John Augustine Washington, 2 October 1778 (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from John Augustine Washington, 2 Oct. 1778. GW wrote John Augustine Washington on 26 Nov. : “Your Letter of the 2d of last Month—though long on its passage—came safe to hand.”
43From George Washington to John Augustine Washington, 26 October 1778 (Washington Papers)
In overhauling some old Papers the other day, I came across the Inclosed Letter from Colo. Cresap to me—written, as he says, in answer to one of mine on the information of his having set up a claim to some part of the Land formerly owned by our deceased Brother Lawrence, & given by him to my Brother Austin. It is essential, as I have upon other occasions mentioned to you, that this matter...
44From 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...
45To George Washington from John Augustine Washington, 12 December 1778 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from John Augustine Washington, 12 Dec. 1778. GW wrote Washington on 12 May 1779 : “Three of your Letters are before me, and I believe unacknowledged, the first is of decr 12th.”
46To George Washington from John Augustine Washington, 31 March 1779 (Washington Papers)
Letter not found : from John Augustine Washington, 31 March 1779. GW wrote to his brother on 12 May : “Three of your Letters are before me, and I believe unacknowledged, the first is of decr 12th—the 2d March 31st (by Mr Muse),” ( DLC:GW ).
47To George Washington from John Augustine Washington, 19 April 1779 (Washington Papers)
Letter not found : from John Augustine Washington, 19 April 1779. On 12 May , GW acknowledged receipt of John Augustine Washington’s letter “of the 19th Ulto by Coll Bull.”
48From 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,...
49From George Washington to John Augustine Washington, 20 June 1779 (Washington Papers)
A day or two before I left Middle Brook I received a letter from you dated in Williamsburg (at what time I do not now recollect as the letter is with my baggage). The hurried state I was then, and ever since have been in, prevented my acknowledging it sooner; and to tell you three weeks after the event has happened, that the Enemy moved up the North River in force, is a little out of season....
50To George Washington from John Augustine Washington, 10 March 1780 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found : from John Augustine Washington, 10 March 1780 . GW wrote Washington on 6 June–6 July 1780 acknowledging “Your letter of the 10th of March” ( DLC:GW ).
51From 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...
52From 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...
53From 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...
54From 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...