From George Washington to William Shirley, 4 April 1756 [letter not found]
Letter not found: to William Shirley, 4 April 1756. On 16 May 1756 Shirley wrote to Horatio Sharpe: “Three Days ago I was favour’d with your Letter dated the 10th of April1 inclosing one from Colonel Washington to me dated the 4th together with another from yourself dated the 14th of the same month” ( , 2:446–47).
1. For Sharpe’s allusion to GW’s letter, see GW to Robert Hunter Morris, 9 April 1756, n.4.