1From George Washington to Samuel Washington, 15 March 1777 (Washington Papers)
The Gentlemen returning from Camp will, I expect, be so overburthened with News, that you will scarce know the want of it for a Month to come. to them therefore I refer you with this assurance of mine, as an opinion, that Genl Howe will move towards Philadelphia the moment the Roads become passable for his Artillery and Baggage. I got Thornton Inoculated on Wednesday Week. he has had the...
2From George Washington to Samuel Washington, 22 October 1778 (Washington Papers)
This Letter will be delivered to you, I expect, by Colo. Thruston; from whom you will be able to receive a more circumstantial Acct of the situation of Affairs in this Quarter than can be conveyed well, in a Letter. We have been kept in an anxious state of Suspence respecting the designs of the Enemy; nor are we able, at this time, to form any precise Ideas and judgment of their ultimate...
3From George Washington to Samuel Washington, 5 April 1777 (Washington Papers)
Thornton returns to you well recover’d of the Small Pox, as I hope to hear that my Sister, and the rest of your family are. I heartily congratulate you on the favourable manner in which you had it yourself. To save Thornton, or you, the expence of buying a Horse to ride home on, I have lent him a Mare of Mine which I beg of you to have sent by any safe conveyance which may offer to Lund...
4From George Washington to Samuel Washington, 28 July 1772 (Washington Papers)
I should be much obliged to you for your care of those matters committed to Mr Johnston, respecting my Tenants; that is, that you would be kind enough to see that they go properly on; as I find Mr Johnston had other Suits against Kennedy besides my Distress ⟨wch⟩ may possibly be the cause of the Sheriffs delay in Serving it. You disappointed us greatly in not seeing you down according to...
5From George Washington to Samuel Washington, 18 October 1776 (Washington Papers)
Your Letter of the 26th Ulto intended to have come by Captn Thomas Rutherford was delivered to me by Mr Vale. Crawford who will also be the bearer of this Letter to you. I wrote you last Week under cover to Lund Washington (who I desired to forward it by a safe hand) a long Letter, containing a full Acct of our Matters in this Quarter; to this, & the bearer, I must refer you for further...
6From George Washington to Samuel Washington, 3 December 1772 (Washington Papers)
I was in great hopes to have met with you at Fredricksburg, or seen you at this place on your way up but it would almost seem as if you had foresworn this part of the Country. I have taken the liberty of troubling you with the Inclosed Letter to Doctr Briscoe & beg that you will take a copy of it, and serve him with the original when it happens to suit your convenience —I have also by Colo...
7From George Washington to Samuel Washington, 6 December 1771 (Washington Papers)
Your Letter of the 30th Ulto came to my hands the 3d Instt —That Mr Smith is dead, is no wonder; that he lived so long, is a matter of some surprize to me, as every body expected to have the burying of him into whose house he came—What a pretty situation your family would have been in, if he had obtaind leave to Innoculate? after having receivd the Infection you would have been left to the...
8From George Washington to Samuel Washington, 30 September 1775 (Washington Papers)
Your favour of the 6th Instt by Mr Hite came safe to hand, and gave me the pleasure of hearing that you, my Sister, & Family were well —I find also that one of my Letters had reached you, which is more than I expected (notwithstanding I have wrote you several) as I learn by my last Letters from home, that neither Mrs Washington, nor Lund, had received a Line from me since the 27th of July,...
9From George Washington to Samuel Washington, 18 December 1776 (Washington Papers)
In the number of Letters which necessity compels me to write, the recollection of any particular one is destroyed, but I think my last to you was from Hackinsack about the 20th of Novr. Since that period, and a little before our affairs took an adverse turn but not more than was to be expected from the unfortunate measures which had been adopted for the establishment of our Army. The Retreat...
10From George Washington to Samuel Washington, 1 October 1775 (Washington Papers)
I have understood from a Letter which Genl Gates has receivd, that you had thoughts of purchasing a Mill from Mr Jacob Hite —Let me Intreat you to consider the Matter well before you bargain—I have understood that this is a very expensive piece of Work—that the Dam has already gone off once or twice &, independently of this, the Work, from the extensiveness of them, is, & must be, costly—To...