1The Farmer Refuted, &c., [23 February] 1775 (Hamilton Papers)
I resume my pen, in reply to the curious epistle, you have been pleased to favour me with; and can assure you, that, notwithstanding, I am naturally of a grave and phlegmatic disposition, it has been the source of abundant merriment to me. The spirit that breathes throughout is so rancorous, illiberal and imperious: The argumentative part of it so puerile and fallacious: The misrepresentations...
2[Diary entry: 23 February 1775] (Washington Papers)
23. Doctr. Craik staid all day. Mr. Rutherford came to Dinner & also stayd all Night. A Mr. Corse dind & went away afterwds. Mr. Corse may have been John Corse, a captain in the Delaware Regiment during the Revolution (see Fitzpatrick, Diaries John C. Fitzpatrick, ed. The Diaries of George Washington, 1748–1799 . 4 vols. Boston and New York, 1925. , 2:186n).
3[Diary entry: 23 February 1775] (Washington Papers)
23. Clear and warm with the wind pretty fresh from the Southward. At Night Rain.