1To George Washington from David Finney, 25 March 1789 (Washington Papers)
Being prompted with Parental regard, for my Family. Suffer me good and great Sir, to introduce the following remarks, to your generous, & candid perusal, pardon me, when I assure your Excellency, that I am descended from Ancestors, eminently distinguished, for the strictest honor and virtue. from whom I inherited an Estate worth £25,000. In the month of February, 1779. I sold a very...