1From George Washington to Thomas Peters, 21 October 1786 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: to Thomas Peters, 21 Oct. 1786. On 18 Nov. 1786 Peters wrote GW : “I have the pleasure of recieving your favour of the 21 of Oct.”
2From George Washington to Thomas Peters, 4 December 1786 (Washington Papers)
Your letter of the 18th Ulto came duly to hand. From the number of fruitless enquiries I had made for spring Barley before I applied to you, and the intervention between the date of my letter and your answer being pretty considerable I despaired of obtaining any of this grain, and therefore seeded the ground which was at first designated for this Crop with Wheat & Rye. I have also since heard...
3From George Washington to Thomas Peters, 20 January 1787 (Washington Papers)
It is now more than six weeks since I begged to be informed in decided terms, if you would furnish me with 50 Bushls of Barley, that I might know whether to depend upon that quantity from you, or resort to Philidelphia for it, where it had been offered to me. I informed you too, that unless the latter was seasonably embraced I might, in case of failure in you, be disappointed altogether. To...
4From George Washington to Thomas Peters, 9 February 1787 (Washington Papers)
As your last letter of the 3d insta. places me on better ground with respect to seed Barley your former one of the 18th of November did—and as will be inconveniant and injurious to me to withhold some of my best grownd from Oats till it may be too late to put this grane in to advantage from the uncertain expectation of Barley. This letter is to pray that you will decline all further trouble in...