1To George Washington from Jean Savary de Valcoulon, 19 March 1795 (Washington Papers)
In order to conciliate your paternal intentions for the Welfare of the people at large, essentially of that reccomandable class of poor farmers, and your private interests, I have framed the present scheme for your properties on the Ohio river, at my best to meet your approbation. Although the pretention of your Excellency of one guinea by acre appear not excessively dear, considering the soil...
2To George Washington from Jean Savary de Valcoulon, 2 April 1795 (Washington Papers)
The Kindness with which your Excellency has taken the trouble to answer by writing to my plan, encourage me to make to your objections some observations by way of explanation to it; rather to Justify the intentions of its author in his ideas of practicableness, than in the design to change the determination of your Excellency. my project in its origin was confined only to a settlement of a...