1From George Washington to Rawleigh Colston, 16 July 1798 (Washington Papers)
Your letter of the 1st of last month got safe to my hands, but long, very long after its date. It would give me great concern if any act of mine should produce difficulty, or loss, to any of the purchasers of Colo. George Mercers land, sold under the Power of Attorney given to me, and others, for that purpose. But as this business has been taken out of my hands by a Decree of the High Court of...
2From George Washington to Rawleigh Colston, 21 October 1798 (Washington Papers)
It is not more than three or four days since your letter enclosing one from Mr Thomas Marshall, has been received. That Gentleman is, as I myself also am in doubt whether more than one draug[h]t has not been made upon me by Colo. Marshall, for the taxes which he has been so kind as to pay for my land in Kentucky. But as the voluminous papers which I brought from Philadelphia are not yet...