1To George Washington from John Hancock, 22 August 1776 (Washington Papers)
...murdering Samuel Holden Parsons’s brother, capital punishment for persons “found lurking as...
2From George Washington to Colonel Lewis Nicola, 5 February 1780 (Washington Papers)
...on account of the frequency of capital punishments and from General Woodford’s representation...
3To George Washington from Samuel Huntington, 16 November 1780 (Washington Papers)
...hath not already been done to inflict capital punishment on all such persons as shall directly...