1To George Washington from Ann McCrea, 4 June 1792 (Washington Papers)
In my Distresed Situation I Make Bold to Call on you for a Little Help, your Houner May Rest assur’d Nothing But want Induces me, the Reason of me Being in this town my Son Left me with an Intention of Coming here but was took Sick in Wilmington, me Hearing of his Sickness Came Imediately to See him a few Days after I Came there He to my Sorrow Died, Left me there friendless and Moneyless, I...
2To George Washington from David Stuart, 4 June 1792 (Washington Papers)
I cannot but think it necessary that you should know, that Bowles’s brother, John, who passed through this town last winter on his way to his Brother, returned a fiew days ago —A Gentleman who had some conversation with him, as he passed through here, tells me, he informed him, that he staid about a fortnight with his brother; and then went to the Bahama islands: from thence he came to...