361To George Washington from John Page, 14 February 1774 (Washington Papers)
I have at last purchas’d Mr John Rootes’s Land for you. He this Day assign’d the Governors Warrant for it, to me, for your Use. I don’t chuse to inclose it, for fear my Letter may miscarry, and am in hopes it will suit your Purpose as well, to receive it at Fredericksburg, the first Day of April; when I expect to have the Pleasure of meeting with you there. No Money will be requir’d of you,...
362From George Washington to Jonathan Boucher, 15 February 1774 (Washington Papers)
Before Mr Beall deliver’d me your Letter of the 10th, which came to hand later than I expected (under a supposition of his willingness to undertake my business on the Ohio) I had conditionally agreed with Mr Vale Crawford for this purpose; who you must know, had Imbark’d in a Courting Scheme (in this neighbourhood) and, as I conceiv’d the task of pleasing a Master & Mistress, equal to that of...
363To George Washington from Bartholomew Dandridge, 16 February 1774 (Washington Papers)
I am sorry my Letter was so long on its passage to you as the most perfect Account of my proceeding with Black would not be very satisfactory. As I have not seen or heard from Mr Hill I took what I thought the best conveyance by a Gentleman who was going directly from hence to Fredericksburg & promised me he would deliver the Letter to Col. Lewis which he has since informed me he did with my...
364From George Washington to Thomas Lewis, 17 February 1774 (Washington Papers)
Whilst I was in Williamsburg, which place I left a few days before the sitting of the Oyer Court in Decemr last; I heard that you, your brother & Colo. Preston, were expected in Town about that time. I took the liberty therefore to address a pretty long letter to my old friend & acquaintance Colo. Andw Lewis respecting some landed matters of my own, & to request him (as it seemed to be the...
365From George Washington to James Tilghman, Jr., 17 February 1774 (Washington Papers)
I am going to give you a little trouble because I am perswaded you will excuse it—no good reason you’ll say, but it is the best I have to offer. Interested, as well as Political Motives, render’s it necessary for me to Seat the Lands which I have Patented on the Ohio in the cheapest, most expeditious, and effectual manner. Many expedients have been proposed to accomplish this; and none, in my...
366To George Washington from Benjamin Stoddert, 17 February 1774 (Washington Papers)
I have a Tickett No. 5272 in Lord Stirlings Lottery, the Gentn from whom I bought it, tells me the Lottery is drawn, & that you wou’d be kind enough to inform me of the success of my Tickett, which if you do, by a Line directed to me at Bladensburgh, You will much Oblige Sir Yr Obedt Sert ALS , DLC:GW . Benjamin Stoddert (1751–1813) of Charles County, Md., was the son of Thomas Stoddert (d....
367To George Washington from Emmanuel Jones, Jr., 18 February 1774 (Washington Papers)
Your favour of the 25th Jany I receiv’d last night, & am sorry to tell You that my Voice was long since engaged to Mr Madison (our Professor of Mathematics) for his Brother: had my good friend Col: Washington made the least mention to me of Capn Crawford, he might have been assur’d, I would gladly have oblig’d him. The Revd Mr Thruston the 1st Instant wrote to me recommending Capn Wm...
368To George Washington from Robert Brent, 19 February 1774 (Washington Papers)
I have to acknowledge the receipt of both Your Letters to Wm Brent Esqr. & Self—That you have not reciev’d an answer sooner to your first, be kind enough to admit of the following Apology. It was deliver’d to me by the Bearer on my way to Dumfries; as he had to proceed to Aquia, I desir’d him to stay till I came home; I met him early the next Morning. On his return, fearful of being detain’d...
369To George Washington from Thomas Eden & Company, 19 February 1774 (Washington Papers)
We are favour’d with yours of the 18 Octr with 4 hhds Tobo ⅌ Capt. Boucher, which are landed in good order & will be dispos’d of to the best advantage in our power for your Interest & the Acct Sales render’d as soon as sold. Capt. Boucher we hope will meet with such dispatch this Voyage as will enable him to get home with his Cargo to an early Market & as Tobo will be much wanted this Summer...
370From George Washington to Thomas Johnson, 20 February 1774 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: to Thomas Johnson, 20 Feb. 1774. Johnson wrote GW on 21 Feb. : “A Servant just now delivered me your Letter of Yesterday.”
371From George Washington to James Wood, 20 February 1774 (Washington Papers)
I have to thank you for your obliging acct of your trip down the Mississipi, containd in a Letter of the 18th of Octobr from Winchester—the other Letter therein referd to, I have never yet received, nor did this come to hand till sometime in November, as I was returning from Williamsburg. The contradictory Accts given of the Lands upon the Mississipi, are really astonishing—some speak of the...
372To George Washington from John Parke Custis, 20 February 1774 (Washington Papers)
How to express fully my Thankfulness, for the many kind Offers you have lately made Nelly & myself; I find great Loss of Words; and shall endeavour by my future Behaviour & Actions to testify the sincere & just Regard I entertain of them, it would give me great Uneasiness to lay under such irreparable Obligations, were I not confident that they proceeded from a Generous & disinterested Mind,...
373To George Washington from Thomas Johnson, Jr., 21 February 1774 (Washington Papers)
A Servant just now delivered me your Letter of Yesterday and told me he was to go out of Town in a few Hours. I expect Mr Calvert will be here Tomorrow or the next Day at farthest by whom I imagine I may cont[r]ive you a more particular and satisfactory Answer than I can instantly—If you have the Instrumt by which Mr Adams engaged his Vessel for your Security or a Copy of it I should be...
374From George Washington to Henry Riddell, 22 February 1774 (Washington Papers)
Mr Young, hearing me express a desire of Importing Palatines to settle on my Lands on the Ohio, tells me, that, in discoursing of this matter in your company, you suggested an expedient which might, probably, be attended with success; and, if I Inclined to adopt it, wish’d to be inform’d before the sailing of your Ship. The desire of seating and Improving of my Lands on the Ohio, is founded on...
375To George Washington from Lamar, Hill, Bisset, & Company, 22 February 1774 (Washington Papers)
Since our last respects to you under 13th Septr last We are not favored with any of yours—The Purport of this is principally to forward you the Sales of the 80 Barrs. of Flour you was pleased to consign us last Septr ⅌ the Sloop Molly Capt. Conway, the Nt proceeds being 421 525 that Sum is to your Credit in your Accot Currt also inclosed Balanced by Our Bill of this Date on Messrs Robt Cary &...
376To George Washington from Henry Riddell, 24 February 1774 (Washington Papers)
I was unluckily from home, when Mr Young brought your Letter of the 22d to this place, otherwise an answer would have been sent you by him. When Mr Young mentioned in conversation your desire of importing Palatines to settle your Lands on the Ohio, the remembrance of Capt. Hyndmans haveing refused to accept a freight of 500 of these people, produced in me a thought, that perhaps through the...
377To George Washington from Craven Peyton, 27 February 1774 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from Craven Peyton, 27 Feb. 1774. This letter is listed in Thomas Birch Sons catalog no. 663, item 68, 21–23 April 1891.
378From George Washington to William Preston, 28 February 1774 (Washington Papers)
I took the liberty before I left Williamsburg (at least the neighbourhood of it, about the 1st of December last) to address a pretty long Letter to Colo. Andw Lewis respecting my Claims under the Proclamation of 1763 —I also Inclos’d him a Survey made by Captn Crawford upon the Great Kanhawa, at the mouth of Cole River, as a Location for the purchase I had made of Mr Thruston, begging him...
379Cash 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...
380From George Washington to Henry Riddell, 1 March 1774 (Washington Papers)
On Sunday afternoon, your favour of the 24th Ulto came to my hands—as you profess to know but little of the expence attending the Importation of Palatines, and it being a business I am totally ignorant of myself I am affraid to plunge into it without further consideration & advice; and therefore, must lay aside my Scheme, either altogether or in part for the present; But as I have already...
381To 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...
382From 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 &...
383To 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.”
384To 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...
385To 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...
386To 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...
387To 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...
388To 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...
389To 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...