1From George Washington to Presley Nevill, 27 November 1786 (Washington Papers)
Accept my thanks for the information given me in your letter of the 25th ulto from the Court House of Washington, respecting the decision of one of my Ejectments. I have, since, been informed by Mr Smith, of the favorable issue of the whole, and of the necessity there is of my paying immediate attention to the Tenements to prevent the waste & damage which otherwise will follow. Consequent of...
2From George Washington to Presley Nevill, 16 June 1794 (Washington Papers)
I should have written to you at an earlier period but for the extreme hurry into which I was thrown at the close of the Session of Congress (wch did not terminate before monday last)—and from my not having adverted, in time, to the Pittsburgh Post day of last week. This letter (as I shall set out for Virginia tomorrow) is left to go by next Saturdays mail. Enclosed is a blank power authorising...