151To George Washington from Robert Adam, 12 January 1774 (Washington Papers)
I am favoured with yours and Observe the Contents I am very senceable of the dissadvantages a person must Labour under who wants experimental knowledge in any undertakeing whatever & more especially in the plan that you have to execute at present. And that James Clievland is by farr a properer person for such Bussiness, but what Induced me to think of recomending Mr Young, was you mentioning...
152To George Washington from Robert Adam, 13 January 1774 (Washington Papers)
I am favoured with yours, as Also for Mr Young which I have delivered him; he seems Satissfyed with your proposal and senceable that he will save more than he Could in Such a place as Bladensburgh from the Wages he had there, And now waits upon you himself —I have Dropt two lines to the Doctr desereing to let me know if there was any particular reason for his leaveing his Employ when I receive...
153To George Washington from William Crawford, 15 January 1774 (Washington Papers)
Inclosed is the Expences of Last sumers Trip a survaying the soldiers Land, and two Small things omited in the former Acounts four Bags Roted out the first Trip in the wett weather and the Kaggs was let go on the Difrent times com up for Provision to people and maid use of going Down to put flower and salt in. Should you have setled with the Company for the hole never mind them you may strick...
154To George Washington from John Connolly, 1 February 1774 (Washington Papers)
I wrote you from Fredericksburgh on my return into this Country, apologizing for my not waiting on you, as I could have wished, & conformable to my promise —I hope you will excuse me for thus intruding upon you, when warranted by so slight an Acquaintance; but the importance of the Subject, with the desire I have to further our intimacy, (I flatter myself) will render me pardonable. When we...
155To George Washington from Edward Snickers, 2 February 1774 (Washington Papers)
I Receved youres Dated 15 of Desembr the 30 of Jenery and as Soon as the wether is Good as waggins Can travile I Shall Send you three or fore hundrid Bushils of Good whete and more if I find I have it to Spare and if you Can not make payment in april I must weaight till you Can as I have purchised Mr Huges Rigt Land I Shold be much obliged to you if in youre power to Send me by the Baror Mr...
156To George Washington from Francis Willis, 7 February 1774 (Washington Papers)
Mr Alexanders Deed being not recorded caused some anxiety & uneasiness both to Mr Alexander & myself, Colenel George Fairfax hearing it, in order to be a means of bringing matters to a proper light, gave me the inclosed paper with an injunction not to forget sending it to You, a riddle I cannot comprehend, however here it is: I heartily & sincerely wish your good Lady to whom pray tender my...
157To George Washington from Jonathan Boucher, 10 February 1774 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from Jonathan Boucher, 10 Feb. 1774. On 15 Feb. GW wrote Boucher and referred to “your Letter of the 10th.”
158To George Washington from Samuel Athawes, 12 February 1774 (Washington Papers)
As my Friend the Honble George Wm Fairfax Esqr. has long since acquainted you with his arrival & of his Situation at York my Congratulations on the occasion will come very late however they are very Sincere & the Proverb says better late than never. By a Letter which I have lately received from him I find both himself & his Lady have had a kind of seasoning, indeed we have had a very...
159To George Washington from Robert Adam, 14 February 1774 (Washington Papers)
In regard to your Design of importing Palantines into Virginia I beleve it would be attended with some difficulty from severall Circumstances, they are in generall much prejudiced against comeing into Virginia or Maryland as in either they are not allowed the same liberty of Concience in enjoying their own Religion, this Naturealy Inclines them more to Pensilvania, as well as the Number of...
160To 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,...
161To 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...
162To 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....
163To 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...
164To 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...
165To 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...
166To 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,...
167To 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...
168To 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 &...
169To 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...
170To 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.
171To 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...
172To 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.”
173To 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...
174To 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...
175To 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...
176To 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...
177To 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...
178To 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...