1To George Washington from Samuel Purviance, Jr., 13 July 1779 (Washington Papers)
I hope you will be so kind as to excuse my troubling your Excellency for information on a Subject with which I apprehend you are much better acquainted than any other Person I coud apply to. The Case is this, I have had an Offer of Eleven Thousand Acres of Land part of those allotted to you & the Officers & Soldiers who fought under you at the Meadows in 1754, and which I have thoughts of...
2To George Washington from Samuel Purviance, Jr., 18 December 1783 (Washington Papers)
The Town of Baltimore feels an unusual joy on your Excellency’s arrival; And, willing to testify, in an acceptable manner, the most grateful sense of your eminent services and superior abilities, We are intrusted to congratulate your Excellency on the Glorious and happy conclusion of an unequal, precarious and bloody War, through which you have successfully Commanded the Armies of the United...
3To George Washington from Samuel Purviance, Jr., 8 September 1781 (Washington Papers)
The Citizens and Inhabitants of Baltimore, impressed with the warmest Sentiments of respect and Esteem, and with the most lively sense of the important Services rendered by you to them and their Country, beg leave (thro us) to congratulate your Excellency, upon your arrival in this Town, and to Express the general Joy diffused through every breast, at the return of your Excellency to this...
4To George Washington from Samuel Purviance, Jr., 6 March 1786 (Washington Papers)
I took the liberty of troubling you in 1779 with some Queries relative to a parcel of Lands which were offerd to me near the mouth of the Great Kanhaway —My Brother & I became Purchasers thereof, to the Amount of Fourteen thousand Acres, besides some other parcels in which We have become interested, upon Elk River a branch of the Kanhaway—This having interested Me so much in that Quarter, I am...