From George Washington to William Pearce, 1 October 1794
To William Pearce
Reading [Pa.] Octr 1st 1794
Mr Pearce,
I am thus far (55 miles from Philadelphia) on my way to Carlisle agreably to what I wrote you on sunday last.1
As I am not much accustomed to the management of Buck Wheat—and think I have heard you declare the Same—the purpose of my writing to you now, is to inform you that this Crop on the whole road I have travelled, is cut down (although I should have thought it much too green) and remains in the field in very small cocks, not larger than a Wheat sheaf drawn to a point, at top, where I presume it is to continue until the seed gets perfectly ripe, & the straw cured. The Potatoes too were every where digging. I remain your friend and well wisher
Go: Washington
ALS, ViMtvL.
1. See GW’s second letter to Pearce of 28 September. GW was en route to rendezvous with the troops called up to suppress the insurrection in western Pennsylvania.