1From George Washington to Anthony Whitting, 10 February 1793 (Washington Papers)
Your letter of the 30th Ulto, enclosing the Reports of the preceeding week, is at hand; but the one which ought to have been here yesterday is not yet arrived: the Mail having again met with some interruption from Ice in the Susquehanna, or some other cause unknown to me. The Major was permitted to cut Cord Wood from the Caps of the trees which had been felled for rails, either for burning...