31From George Washington to Thomas Gibson, 10 July 1773 (Washington Papers)
This Letter is intended to desire you to make me a genteel Suit of Second Mourning, such as is worn by Gentlemen of taste, not those who are for running into the extreame of every fashion. Make these Cloaths of Broad Cloth, but at the sametime send me a proper kind of Waistcoat & Breeches to wear with the Coat when the Weather is warm. The Cloaths you sent me last year (agreeable to my last...
32Cash 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...
33Cash Accounts, August 1772 (Washington Papers)
Contra Augt 8— By Cash paid William Gray—Ditcher £ 1.10. 0 10— By Ditto paid for 18 Water Mellons 0. 4.10 12— By Charity 0. 3. 0 14— By Mrs Cox making and altering Gowns for Mrs Washington 0.12. 6 16— By Ditto Makg & alterg Do for Miss Custis 0.15. 0 By Cash pd for Water Mellon’s 0. 3. 0 By Servant
34From George Washington to Thomas, Lord Fairfax, 4 February 1773 (Washington Papers)
I have just been informed of Isaac Larews having enter’d in your Lordship’s Office, a Tract of Land survey’d for my deceas’d Brother, Lawrence, in the name of Richd Sanford, twenty odd years ago. The circumstances attending which, to the best of my recollection, will be found upon enquiry, to stand thus. This Land being survey’d just before the Death of my Brother, a Patent never issued for...
35From George Washington to John Vardill, 15 December 1773 (Washington Papers)
Had I not expected to have acknowledged the rect of your obliging favor of Septemr last by the return of Mr Custis I shou’d not have remained silent ’till now. The pleasure which I received from your favourable account of this young Gentleman’s conduct at College cou’d only have been increased by his continuance at that place, & in the same pursuits—But this is at an end, and I am obliged to...
36From George Washington to Robert McMickan, 12 February 1773 (Washington Papers)
On the 12th Ulto I troubled you with a Letter respecting my Consignment of Flour to D: J: Adams in the Brig Fairfax to which I beg leave to refer; since the date thereof I have been advis’d to send a more Authentick power of Attorney; which I now do, and shall, if you can serve me in this affair acknowledge it as a very singular favr. It is not in my power to make out an Acct with any...
37From George Washington to Sarah Bomford, 23 December 1773 (Washington Papers)
Your tender feeling on account of the distressed Mrs Savage is exceedingly praiseworthy; & your last favor of the 21st of Septr, which is just come to hand, exhibits a pleasing specimen of your humanity, & benevolent way of thinking. Apologies, in a cause like this, are entirely unnecessary; especially to a person, who conceives himself honored by your corrispondence, though begun, & like to...
38From George Washington to John Blair, 4 December 1772 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: to John Blair, Jr., 4 Dec. 1772. On 9 Dec. 1772 the Exec. Journals of Virginia Council H. R. McIlwaine et al., eds. Executive Journals of the Council of Colonial Virginia . 6 vols. Richmond, 1925–66. (6:516) reported: “Col. Washingtons Letter of the 4th, Inst. to the Clerk, and the Resolves (therein inclosed) of the Commissioned Officers of the first Virginia Regt. at a...
39Cash Accounts, November 1773 (Washington Papers)
Cash Novr 4— To Ditto [cash] recd from Peyton Randolph Esqr. for Intt due Mr Custis £ 15.12.6 To ditto recd from Mr Thos Newton of Norfolk by the hands of Mr [James] Hill 228. 0.0 25— To Cash recd from Mr Auge Willis for Mr Francis Willis Junr 60. 0.0 26— To Ditto recd from Colo. Bannister 32.10.0 Contra 3— By my Subscipn to the Society of useful knowledge 0.10.0 6— By cash paid Colo....
40Cash Accounts, May 1772 (Washington Papers)
Cash May 1— To Ditto [cash] receivd for Ditto [Fish] £ 0.18.0 11— To Ditto for Fish 3 M Herrings 0. 9.0 To Ditto for Eight thousand Salt Herrings 4. 8.0 12— To Cash receivd of Mr Willm Triplet 3. 1.9 16— To Ditto of Mr Hectr Ross for J[ohn] Washington—Suffolk 20. 0.0 To Ditto of Lund Washington for Corn sold 27. 1.0 To Ditto of Do on acct of Do from B[utle]r Ashford
41From 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...
42From George Washington to Amos Strettell, 14 August 1772 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: to Amos Strettell, 14 Aug. 1772. On 18 Aug. Strettell wrote to GW : “Your Favour of 14th Currt has enabled me to compleat your Insurance.”
43From 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...
44From George Washington to Jonathan Boucher, 4 May 1772 (Washington Papers)
After a tiresome, and in my opinion, a very unimportant Session, I return’d home about the middle of last Month accompanied by Colo. Bassett &ca. The expediency of an American Episcopate was long, & warmly debated, and at length rejected. as a substitute, the House attempted to frame an Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction, to be composed of a President and four other Clergymen, who were to have full...
45From George Washington to Robert Cary & Company, 12 July 1773 (Washington Papers)
I had but just closed my Letter of the 10th which goes by this oppy, & contains my Invoices, when I receivd advice from Mr Hill of the Tobaccos which he either had, or intended to put on board the Rising Sun; but as it seemd to be a matter of doubt whether the Eastern Shore Crop either had, or would be got to the Ship, I do not know how to ascertain the Insurance of Mr Custis’s Tobo by the...
46From George Washington to Robert McMickan, 20 July 1773 (Washington Papers)
I wrote to you on the 14th Ulto to which I refer, having heard nothing from, or of, Danl Jenifer Adams since. By the Swift Lawe Sanford Master I consign you 500 Bushls of Indian Corn which please to sell for the highest price you can get, and after sending me the several articles under written, remit me the Balle in Cash by return of the Vessell. I should be glad also to receive the other...
47From 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.”
48From 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...
49From George Washington to Jonathan Boucher, 18 December 1772 (Washington Papers)
I send my Carriage up but cannot undertake to promise for the Horses bringing you down, as two of them are unused to drawing, & but one Postilion accustomd to drive, the other, with my lame Horses not being return’d from Williamsburg—Mrs Washington &ca join in Compliments to Mrs & Miss Boucher, who, together with yourself, we shall expect to see at Dinner —I am Dr Sir Yr Most Obedt ALS...
50From 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...
51From 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,...
52From George Washington to Gilbert Simpson, 23 February 1773 (Washington Papers)
As the Negro Fellow I bought In Alexandria will by no means consent to leave this Neighbourhood and as you did not seem Inclind to take him without I have sent a young Fellow which I bought last Spring in his room—In coming from Boston here he got Frost Bit & lost part of his Toes—which prevents his Walkg with as much activity as he otherwise would but as they are quite well, and he a good...
53Guardian Accounts, 3 November 1773 (Washington Papers)
Mr John Parke Custis In Acct with George Washington Drs. Sterl. Curry 1771 May 10 To Cash paid Phips Jackson Eater—in part for Land bought of him by consent of the Genl Ct 200. 20 To a Horse bot of Colo. Bassett—for his Riding 43. June 4 To Cash paid the Revd Mr Boucher £50 Md Cy eql to 40. To Ditto for Pocket Money 2. 8. July ⟨ ⟩ To 2 Blankets to his Servants 1. 5. To Cash...
54From George Washington to Jonathan Boucher, 5 May 1772 (Washington Papers)
As I wrote to you yesterday, I should scarcely have found any thing to have said today, had not Mr Ballendine’s desire of laying before Govr Eden & the Gentlemen of Annapolis, a Scheme which he has been encouraged to adopt, of visiting the Duke of Bridgewaters Works, & other things of the kind in England, with a view of bringing himself better acquainted with the true principles of that sort...
55From George Washington to Lamar, Hill, Bisset, & Company, 15 July 1773 (Washington Papers)
Inclosed you have a Letter from Mr Henry Hill respecting some Flour which I proposd Shipping to your House. You have also a Bill of Lading for Eighty Barrels of it with the Invoice by the Molly Thomas Conway which I expect will be found of the best quality—In return for this please to send me four Pipes of your particular, or best Wines, as it is for my own drinking I want it, and understand...
56From George Washington to Robert Cary & Company, 31 May 1773 (Washington Papers)
I am now at this place with Mr Custis (my Ward) who I have brought to the College here; in fixing him properly at it, I find it proper to draw upon you, on his Acct, for one hundred pounds Sterlg in favour of the Reverend Doctr Cowper the President thereof, which Draft bears date with this Letter—please therefore to make payment & place it to Acct of this Young Gentleman. I shall, it is...
57From George Washington to Thomas Newton, 14 June 1773 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: to Thomas Newton, Jr., 14 June 1773. On 30 June Newton wrote GW : “I received yours of 14th.”
58From George Washington to George William Fairfax, 30 December 1773 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: to George William Fairfax, 30 Dec. 1773. On 30 June 1786 GW wrote Fairfax : “The letters of . . . 30th of Decr 177⟨3⟩ . . . contain a full, & accurate acct of every thing that had occurred relative to your business.”
59From George Washington to Robert McMickan, February 1773 (Washington Papers)
You will be surprizd perhaps at the frequency of my Letters—I wish I had less cause to be troublesome to you—but having receivd Information of late, that my Affairs in the hands of Mr D: J: Adams are in a very desperate way, & vigorous measures necessary to be pursued, I send you a Copy of the power of Attorney which I forwarded on the 12th Inst. to Norfolk (in order to get the Seal of the...
60Memorandum 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