1From George Washington to Mason Locke Weems, 31 March 1799 (Washington Papers)
Your letter of the 26th instt came duly to hand. In answer thereto, I inform you that, my sale to Mr James Welch, of the Lands I hold upon the Great Kanhawa, is conditional only. He has a Lease of them at a certain annual Rent—which if punctually paid, for Six years, and at the end thereof shall pay one fourth of the sum fixed on as the value of them; and the like sum by Instalments the three...