31From George Washington to Jonathan Boucher, 2 August 1773 (Washington Papers)
I am sorry to be deprivd of the pleasure of seeing you—& concernd at the painful cause of it; which, if every other remedy faild I should be for drawing. Your Acct I dare say is perfectly right, & I will either leave Bills to the amount of it, under cover with Mr Calvert, or send them to you in a day or two after I get home; drawn at Par, which the Govr tells me is rather less than might be...
32From George Washington to Jonathan Boucher, 5 August 1773 (Washington Papers)
Under cover with this Letter I send you a Bill of Excha: on Robt Cary & Co. for £65 Sterlg, which is the amount of your acct at 66⅔, more than which the Govr told me might be had for good Bills. I have made no deduction for the sums of £1.5.0 & £2.6.0 Virga Curry paid Rind & Purdie on your Acct nor of £1.4.0 York Cy paid Gaine, Whose receipt I now Inclose; as, to the best of my recollection, I...
33From George Washington to John Bradshaw & James Davidson, 15 July 1772 (Washington Papers)
That I may have my Seins Nett exactly agreeable to directions this yr I give you the trouble of receivg this Letter from me to desire that 3 may be made—One of them 80 fathom long another 70—& the 3d 65 fathom—all of them to be 12 feet deep in the Middle & to decrease to 7 at the end when Rigged & fit for use—to be so close Meshd in the Middle as not to suffer the Herrgs (for wch kind of...
34From George Washington to John Briscoe, 3 December 1772 (Washington Papers)
I have been inform’d, that a Survey which Captain Crawford made for me on the Ohio (being the first bottom on the So. East side of the river) above Capteening, & nearly opposite to Pipe Creek, at my particular request, you have either gone, or intend to go, & take possession of; Such a step as this, I cou’d hardly have expected from you However as it is a piece of Land I viewed in Novr 1770...
35From George Washington to Benedict Calvert, 3 April 1773 (Washington Papers)
I am now set down to write to you on a Subject of Importance, & of no small embarrassment to me. My Son in Law & Ward, Mr Custis, has, as I have been informd, paid his Addresses to your Second Daughter, & having made some progress in her Affections required her in Marriage—How far a union of this Sort may be agreeable to you, you best can tell, but I should think myself wanting in Candour was...
36From George Washington to Matthew Campbell, 7 August 1772 (Washington Papers)
In reply to your Letter of the 4th I think it a piece of Justice due to you to acknowledge that I was not lead to enquire into the price of the Goods I had purchased of your already, & might hearafter take from any thing that passed between us at the time I offered to discontinue my own Importations (upon Condition I could get my Goods at nearly what they would cost to Import them myself)—I...
37From George Washington to James Carter, 27 April 1772 (Washington Papers)
As it has been your usual Custom to discharge the Interest of your Bond at the April Genl Court I have directed Mr James Hill to call upon you for it as I can not be down myself & he is directed in respect to the application of the Money. His receipt with this Letter will be equal to one passed from Sir Yr Most Obedt Servt ALS , owned (1993) by Mr. Robert Gardner. For James Carter’s annual...
38From George Washington to James Carter, 20 April 1773 (Washington Papers)
As you have usually paid the Intt of your Bond at this Court, I have taken the liberty of requesting you to do it now to Mr James Hill, as it is not convenient to me, to be down at the Meeting of Merchants—Mr Hills receipt for the Ten pounds Sixteen Shillings due at the foot of this Letter will be the same as if pass’d from Sir Yr Most Obedt Servt ALS , NjMoHP . For Dr. Carter’s annual payment...
39From George Washington to Peter Chester, 25 March 1773 (Washington Papers)
Mr Wood the bearer of this is a Gentleman of Virginia upon a Tour to Florida—He proposes before his return to explore some of the ungranted Lands in your Government; and, as I have never yet been able to Locate the Lands which I am entitled to under his Majesty’s Proclamation of October 1763 has promised that, if he meets with such Lands as he thinks will answer my purpose to have 10,000 acres...
40From George Washington to Myles Cooper, 15 December 1773 (Washington Papers)
The favourable account you was pleas’d to transmit me of Mr Custis’s conduct at College, gave me very great satisfaction; & I hoped to have felt an increase of it by his continuance at that place under a Gentleman so capable of instructing him in every branch of useful knowledge, as you are: but these hopes are at an end; & at length, I have yielded, contrary to my judgment, & much against my...
41From George Washington to Myles Cooper, 31 May 1773 (Washington Papers)
Inclos’d you have a sett of Bills for one hundred pounds Sterling which please to sell at the prevailing Exchange and retain the money in your own hands to answer Mr Custis’ Expences at College, & such calls as he may have for Cash to defray the Incident expences of his abode in this City—In respect to the first Article of Expence, I submit the matter wholely to your better judgement, under a...
42From George Washington to Lord Dunmore and Council, 3 November 1773 (Washington Papers)
The whole quantity of 200000 Acres of Land granted by the Hon: Robt Dinwiddie’s Proclamation of the 19th of Feby 1754 being now fully obtaind (within the number of Surveys limitted) and the last Certificates thereof lodgd in the Secretarys Office, I take the liberty, humbly to inform your Excellency and Honrs that the Surveys formerly made, are already Patented agreeably to an Order of Council...
43From George Washington to Valentine Crawford, 27 December 1773 (Washington Papers)
I have just obtained an order of council to grant lands under the King’s proclamation of October, 1763, to the officers and soldiers, by which a lieutenant is entitled to 2000 acres, but that the Governor would not grant his warrants of survey to any that did not personally apply for them. Numbers, however, are obtaining these warrants, and locating them with the surveyors of Augusta,...
44From George Washington to William Crawford, 27 July 1773 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: to William Crawford, 27 July 1773. On 12 Nov. 1773 Crawford wrote GW : “I Received yours of July 27th.”
45From George Washington to William Crawford, 25 September 1773 (Washington Papers)
I have heared (the truth of which, if you saw Lord Dunmore in his way to or from Pittsburg, you possibly are better acquainted with than I am) that his Lordship will grant Patents for Lands laying below the Scioto, to the Officers & Soldiers who claim under the Proclamation of October 1763. If so, I think no time shoud be lost in having them surveyed, lest some new revolution should again...
46From George Washington to William Crawford, 25 September 1773 (Washington Papers)
Since writing the enclosed, I have further understood that the Governor, from some displeasure at Capt: Bullet’s conduct, (whether for surveying at all , or for other persons , besides those claiming under the Proclamation; or whether for a speech & engagement wch he entered into with the Indians,) has order’d him in —If the Govrs displeasure proceeded from the last mention’d cause, I should...
47From George Washington to Michael Cresap, 26 September 1773 (Washington Papers)
In my Passage down the ohio in the Fall of the year 1770 I made choice of a piece of Land, being the first bottom on the So. East side the river above Capteening, as also a little above a place where the effects of a hurricane appear among the Trees, & opposite to a Creek on the other side near the upper end of the bottom, call’d Pipe Creek. The next Spring, when Capt: Crawford went down the...
48From George Washington to John Dalton, 15 February 1773 (Washington Papers)
I am obligd to you for the notice you have given me of an intended meeting of your Vestry on Tuesday next—I do not know however that it will be in my power to attend, nor do I conceive it at all necessary that I should, as I am an avowd Enemy to the Scheme I have heard (but never till of late believd) that some Members of your Vestry are Inclind to adopt. If the Subscription to which among...
49From George Washington to Bartholomew Dandridge, 12 February 1774 (Washington Papers)
Your favour of the 30th of Decr was long on its passage to this place, not arriving till I had receivd, and answer’d, an imperfect acct of your Interview with Mr Black from Mr Hill (dated the 10th or 12th of Jany) —I thank you heartily for the trouble you took in attempting to settle the business with that worthless Sc——l, who seems to be an adept in every species of Artifice and...
50From George Washington to Bartholomew Dandridge, 6 December 1773 (Washington Papers)
Upon enquiry of Davenport (who went up to the King William Office last Week) I am convinced that, Black has never receivd any conveyance at all, for the Land that was Grisley’s; and I much doubt whether he has ever receivd any for the Mill Tract. What is proper to be done under these Circumstances, I am really at a loss to determine; I think the purchase too advantage for Mr Custis to give up...
51From George Washington to James Davidson, 10 July 1773 (Washington Papers)
Please to send me two Seins of Eighty fathom long each, agreeable to the directions you receivd last year, but with this difference. Let them be Ten feet wide at the ends or Wings (instead of Seven as the last ware) and be something narrower Meshd, especially on the Wings, as the Herrings (for which kind of Fishery they are intended) get fastend in them, and give us some plague in disengaging...
52From George Washington to John Didsbury, 15 July 1772 (Washington Papers)
Please to send the following Shoes & Boots and apply to Robt Cary Esqr. & Co. for Payment. For Geo: Washington 3 pair of strong but neat Shoes } By the last Meas[ur]e Sent 3 pr of neat & light Do 1 pr of Morrocco Leather Slippers For Mr Custis 2 pair of neat dble Chand Pumps } pr Meas[ur]e now sent 3 pr strong but neat Shoes 4 pr neat & thin Do 2 pr of neat dressd Pumps 1 pr neat red...
53From George Washington to John Didsbury, 10 July 1773 (Washington Papers)
Please to send me the following Shoes and Boots; & make out your Bill as under. Messrs Cary & Co. will pay the whole amount and I am Sir Yr Very Hble Servt ALB , DLC:GW . This letter was sent with GW’s letter of the same date to Robert Cary & Company. Written “under” was: “For Geo: Washington 3 pr of strong Shoes, 3 pr dress’d Do Calf, 1 pr Mens Clogs, or Goloshoes to fit the above Shoes—[all]...
54From George Washington to Lord Dunmore, 11 February 1774 (Washington Papers)
Application’s for Certificates, under particular circumstances obliges me to give your Lordship more trouble than I could wish to do in reciting matters specially. This is the case at present in respect to Messrs Valentine Crawford and Hugh Stephenson; the first of whom serv’d as Waggon Master for sevl years, and sometimes had the care of his Majesty’s Stores on the Southern department...
55From George Washington to Lord Dunmore, 2 November 1773 (Washington Papers)
Urged to it by repeated applications from a number of officers whom I have had the honor to command in the service of this Colony, I take the liberty of addressing Your Excelly on the subject of the Lands which the Gentlemen conceive themselves entitled to under his Majesty’s bounty of October 1763. The exception in favor of the Officers & Soldiers, contained in his Majesty’s order in Council...
56From George Washington to Lord Dunmore, 15 June 1772 (Washington Papers)
The very obliging offer your Lordship was pleased to make me the day I left Williamsburg, in behalf of the Officers & Soldiers who (under Faith of Governmt) lay claim to 200,000 acres of Land, on the waters of Ohio (promis’d them by Proclamation in 1754) I did not embrace, because it is evident to me, who am in some degree acquainted with the situation of that country, & the rapid progress...
57From George Washington to Lord Dunmore, 20 June 1773 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: to Lord Dunmore, 20 June 1773. On 3 July Dunmore wrote GW : “I received the favour of yours of the 20th of last Month.”
58From George Washington to Lord Dunmore, 13 April 1773 (Washington Papers)
In obedience to your Lordship’s request, I do myself the honour to inform you that, by Letters this day receivd from Doctr Cooper of Kings College in New-York, I find it will be about the first of May before I shall set of for that place; and that it will be June, perhaps the middle of it before I return — Harvest then coming on, and seldom ending till after the middle of July I could almost...
59From George Washington to Lord Dunmore, 30 July 1772 (Washington Papers)
The death of Mr Horracks has I dare venture to say, opened a door to numberless applications to your Lordship, among which the Revd Mr Scott of Prince William County, desires to be introduced as a Candidate for the Office of Commissary. However odd it may seem in me, who has but barely the honour of being known to your Lordship, to appear in behalf of another, I cannot help adding that, Mr...
60From George Washington to Lord Dunmore, 12 September 1773 (Washington Papers)
By the time this Letter can reach Williamsburg, I hope I may be permitted to congratulate your Lordship on your safe return to the City, from a Tour through a Country, if not well Improv’d, at least bless’d with many natural advantages. I was exceedingly sorry, and disappointed in not having the honour of your Lordships Company in your way out, especially as it was my Intention to have waited...