On Tuesday last I wrote you a few lines informing you of the probability of General Washington’s death.1 The truth of this melancholy event is confirmed beyond all possibility of doubt. We are taking measures here to pay suitable honors to the memory of this greatest & best of men— Our whole city appears to be penetrated with the profoundest Grief— Our churches are in mourning— our bells toll are muffled & toll every day at 12 oClock— Our citizens wear mourning— Mr Gouverneur Morris at the request of the Corporation is to pronounce an oration— Committees are forming to concert a general plan for the expression of our Grief—2 and I have no doubt we shall transmit to our posterity the most honorable proof of the consideration in which we hold the illustrious founder of our liberties— I hope our friends at Albany will not be inferior to us in zeal & patriotism upon this truly mournful occasion. In great haste I am Dear Sir, Very truly yours,