181From George Washington to Jacob Van Braam, 30 December 1773 (Washington Papers)
To the Letter I addressed you on the 22d of Novr 1771, (which Colo. Mercer in one of his dated the 1st of April followg, informs me he had forwarded, & had receiv’d your remarks upon), I have never been favor’d with an answer, altho’ it was on a matter which required the united efforts of the parties concern’d to carry it into execution, and of such a nature as not to be prosecuted, without...
182From George Washington to James Mercer, December 1773 (Washington Papers)
When I sat seriously down, divested of other thoughts, to write to Mr Montague on the Subject of the power of attorney which he Inclosed to Colo. Tayloe, Colo. Mason, & myself, it appeared, if not absolutely necessary, at least, that it would be very satisfactory to him, and the Mortgagees, (as matters are very differently circumstanced to what they expected) to receive authentick Copi⟨es⟩ of...
183Memorandum List of Quitrents, 1773 (Washington Papers)
A List of Lands belonging to Geo: Washington in the Northern Neck—on wch Quit-rents became due—Michaelmas 1773. In Fairfax County—Mt Vernon 2126 Bought of Darrell 500 Clifton 1806 Brent 238 Wm Ashford 135 Geo: Ashford 135 Simn Pearson 178 Wm Whiting 200 Jno. Posey 200
184Cash Accounts, January 1774 (Washington Papers)
Cash Jan. 6— To Cards [£] 0.18. 0 8— To Ditto [cash] recd for making a Suit of Cloaths 1. 0. 0 To Ditto for a Bushl of Meal 0. 2. 6 To Ditto recd from Mr [Robert] Adam Shoing his Horse 0. 4. 0 11— To Ditto recd of Mr Jas Hill by Jos[ia]s Cornelius 132. 3. 1 31— To Ditto recd from Bryan Fairfax Esqr. a years Intt of the money lent him J[ohn] P[arke] C[ustis] 12.19.10 Contra Jany 3— By Cash to...
185From George Washington to James Mercer, 8 January 1774 (Washington Papers)
Your Letter of the 1st Instt, came to my hands yesterday, only —I am very glad to find that you settled the business with Lord Fairfax so much to your satisfaction; I cannot in this Letter, fix upon a time to attend the division of the Bullrun Land being in hourly expectation of seeing Captn Crawford, with whom I have some business to transact, and a time ⟨ mutilated ⟩ upon my Ohio Lands,...
186From George Washington to Robert Adam, 13 January 1774 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: to Robert Adam, c.13 Jan. 1774. On c.13 Jan. 1774 Adam wrote to GW : “I am favoured with yours.” GW’s missing letter of c.13 Jan. was in answer to a letter from Adam dated 12 January .
187From George Washington to George Young, 13 January 1774 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: to George Young, c.13 Jan. 1774. On c.13 Jan. 1774 Robert Adam wrote to GW : “I am favoured with yours, as Also for My Young.” For the dating of this letter, see note 1 in GW to Robert Adam, same date .
188From George Washington to William Black, 17 January 1774 (Washington Papers)
I was not a little surprized when informed by your own letter, as well as from Mr Hills, of Mrs Black’s having refused to acknowledge her right of Dower in the Lands I bought of you. Did you not repeatedly assure me, that she was ready at all times, to relinquish her right? And did she not signify as much to me herself, as I brought her from Williamsburg to Colo. Bassett’s? From whence then...
189From George Washington to James Hill, 17 January 1774 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: to James Hill, c.17 Jan. 1774. In a letter to Bartholomew Dandridge of c.12 Feb. , GW spoke of “a Letter which I have just receivd from Mr [George] Wythe (in answer to one I wrote him [on 17 Jan.], and at the sametime I did to Mr [James] Hill.”
190From George Washington to George Wythe, 17 January 1774 (Washington Papers)
I find my trouble is not like to be at an end with Mr Black; Mrs Black (by his procurement I think I could almost venture to say) has refused to execute the Deeds you drew from them to me; and which is still more extraordinary, he himself has denied possession of the Mills (as Mr Hill informs me) & the other premises generally, as you may see by his letter to me, forwarded to Mr Hill, ’till I...
191From George Washington to Emmanuel Jones, 25 January 1774 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: to Emmanuel Jones, Jr., 25 Jan. 1774. On 18 Feb. Jones wrote GW : “Your favour of the 25th Jany I receiv’d last night.”
192From George Washington to Angus McDonald, 28 January 1774 (Washington Papers)
Inclosed you have a Certificate of your having served as an Officer in the Virginia Regiment; as to your Services in the Militia, I have nothing at all to do with them, & am pretty sure they will not be allowed. at least this is my private opinion. the Governor however is, unless he chooses to advise with the Council, the sole judge of these matters, & from him only, can you be satisfied in...
193From George Washington to George Muse, 29 January 1774 (Washington Papers)
Your impertinent Letter of the 24th ulto, was delivered to me yesterday by Mr Smith —As I am not accustomed to receive such from any Man, nor would have taken the same language from you personally, without letting you feel some marks of my resentment; I would advise you to be cautious in writing me a second of the same tenour; for though I understand you were drunk when you did it, yet give me...
194Cash Accounts, February 1774 (Washington Papers)
Cash Feby 2— To Ditto [cash] recd from Mr Geo: Johnson on Acct of David Kennedys Rent [£] 35.10.3 To Ditto recd from Bryan Allison Smiths wk 0. 2.0 4— To Ditto recd from Govr Eden—on acct of the money wch I paid Colo. Carlyle & Mr Campbell for him 32.15.0 19— To Ditto of Mr John Baynes on acct of James Towers’s Land 5.12.2 21— To Cash recd from Captn [Thomas] Conway 40. 0.0 To Ditto recd from...
195From George Washington to John David Wilper, 7 February 1774 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: to John David Wilper, 7 Feb. 1774. On 23 Mar. Wilper wrote GW : “I was Favourt with your Letter, Dated february 7th.”
196From 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...
197From George Washington to Burwell Bassett, 12 February 1774 (Washington Papers)
I find there will go some matters from this country, which will make my attendance at the Assembly necessary; this I cannot possibly do and go over the Mountains this Spring. I have therefore determined, much against my Inclination & Interest, to postpone my Trip to the Ohio till after Harvest (as I cannot well be absent from home at that Season.) As March therefore (at least the first of it)...
198From 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...
199From George Washington to an Unidentified County Surveyor, 12 February 1774 (Washington Papers)
Satisfied as I am, of the many application’s you must have had made to you, for assistants to Survey the Officers & Soldiers Lands undr the Proclamation of Octr 1763, I can not help taking the liberty of mentioning my Friend & acquaintance Captn Thos Rutherford to you, as one —To say anything in favour of a Gentleman, whose Character is well known, is useless—to you, altogether unnecessary, as...
200From 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...
201From 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...
202From 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...
203From 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.”
204From 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...
205From 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...
206From 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...
207Cash 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...
208From 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...
209From 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 &...