1To George Washington from William Osborne, 29 August 1793 (Washington Papers)
It is with the Greatest Respect that I take this mode of informing You, that my present expences being render’d greater than heretofore by haveing a Wife added to them, Induces me to turn my attention to Some more Eligible way of Obtaining a living than Servitude, as it is impossible to Support her by my Sallery arising from my present Sittuation. I Have therefore Sir, with the advice, and, an...