1To 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...
2To 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...
3To 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...