1From George Washington to John Harvie, 10 February 1784 (Washington Papers)
After an absence of almost nine years from home, & a total suspension, as it were to all my private concerns during that period, I am now endeavouring to obtain a knowledge of my Affairs & to put my business in some kind of order again. The deranged situation of my papers (occasioned by frequent hasty removals of them out of the enemy’s reach) makes it more difficult to affect these, than it...
2From George Washington to John Harvie, 29 February 1784 (Washington Papers)
I have received, & thank you for your obliging favor of the 21st in answer to my letter of the 10th—I will write to the Surveyors of Augusta & Botetourt for information in those matters which the Land office is unable to give me: for sure I am, I have warrants somewhere which ought, long ’ere this, to have been executed. The two Surveys of which you sent me copies, I should be glad to have...
3From George Washington to John Harvie, 18 March 1784 (Washington Papers)
By a further research into my papers, I have found—with a letter from Colo. Fielding Lewis (which it shou’d seem must have come to this place after I had accepted the command of the Army & was gone to Cambridge)—the Survey which I now enclose, as I also do the letter alluded to, as it will account for its delay in reaching the Land office ’till now. As I recollect well that Michael Cresap &...