1Cash Accounts, March 1774 (Washington Papers)
Cash Mar. 12— To Cash of John Reiley for Rent [£] 6. 0. 0 To Ditto recd from Colo. Saml [Washington] for Rents recd by him of Alexr Fryer, Anthy Gholson & Saml Scratchfield 14.15. 0 To Ditto recd from Anthy Gholson—Rent 4. 0. 0 20— To Ditto recd of Josh Kerlin—Rent 6. 0. 0 25— To Cash recd of Michl Henry for Rent of Mr Wm Ellzey 5. 0. 0 26— To Ditto recd of Richd Lee Esqr. of Maryld pr Doctr...
2To George Washington from Henry Riddell, 18 March 1774 (Washington Papers)
I return you Mr Ross’s Letter, and will think no further of importing Germans, the difficulty attending it being so great. I am with Esteem Sir Your most hble Servt ALS , DLC:GW . The letter from John Ross of Philadelphia to Robert Adam, dated 1 Mar. 1774 and docketed by GW, is in DLC:GW . In the letter Ross, who had stopped importing Germans several years earlier, detailed some of the...
3To George Washington from William McGachen, 13 March 1774 (Washington Papers)
I received your very agreeable favour by Mr Crawford I have done my self the pleasure to give him every assistance in my power and has purchased for you Four men convicts four Indented servants for three years and a man & his wife for four years the price Is I think rather high but as they are country likely people and you at present wanted them Mr Crawford said he imagined you would be well...
4To George Washington from William Hughes, 12 March 1774 (Washington Papers)
I am heare Confined in prison and has Bin for above two yeres and if you will onley Right a fue Lines to Govener Edon to See if he will for Give me his parte of the fees I am in hopes to Git out of this place as I have no frind on Earth as I no of onley Mr Snickers. Coll Bird has Sent me a Sertifecat by Capt. price for my Being a ofiser in the Rigement if you thinke I am intiteled, to Dockter...
5To George Washington from Joseph Chew, 10 March 1774 (Washington Papers)
though it is a long time since I have had the pleasure of writing to you, it is not so, with Respect of my inquires of your health and Happiness and the accounts my Lord Sterling gave me last summer were very agreable his Lordship informed me he spent Some time with you in Virginia Very Happily. I am informed my Lord Dunmore is now Granting lands to the Officers who served in the Virga...
6To George Washington from Andrew Lewis, 9 March 1774 (Washington Papers)
Your favour by Mr Young I recd and am Sorry, As Matters have turned out that I did not insted of returning You Your Warants &c. Put them in the hands of the diffrant Surveyers which would have saved you the expence of this Express. however this is the Only loss You can sustain on that Account As fare as I can judge for I have keept it a secreat, that those two Surveys You Send the Work of are...
7To George Washington from William Preston, 7 March 1774 (Washington Papers)
I recd your Letter Inclosing a Warrant for 2000 Acres, & a Certifate of Mr Crawfords for 2050 Acres in the Fork of the great Kanhawa and Cole River, by favour of Mr Young. Be assured Sir that nothing could have given me greater Pleasure than to have complied with your Request had it been in my Power; and the rather as I see nothing in it that is unreasonable or unprecedented. When I was last...
8From George Washington to Henry Riddell, 5 March 1774 (Washington Papers)
The Reasons which you Assign for not undertaking positively to furnish me with the number & kind of Palatines mentioned in my last Letter, I must confess are cogent; at the sametime it obliges me, under that uncertainty, to lay aside the Scheme till I can be advise’d from Phila. (to which place I had written for Information previous to your first conversation with Mr Young) of the expence &...
9To George Washington from Robert Cary & Co., 5 March 1774 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from Robert Cary & Co., 5 Mar. 1774. On 1 June GW wrote Cary: “Your letter of 5th of Mar: . . . came to my hands.”
10To George Washington from Henry Riddell, 2 March 1774 (Washington Papers)
I cannot certainly engage to import the number of Germans mentioned in your Letter of the 1st, for owing to my ignorance of the Trade, I have no consistant principle, or any thing like a certainty, to induce me, to enter on a positive Agreement, for the delivery of these people here. But should you chuse it, I can forward to Rotterdam the terms you offer such Germans as are able to export...