1From George Washington to Alexander Steel, 25 May 1786 (Washington Papers)
As I have no information of Doctr Shiell’s death, nor any connexion with his family or affairs; I return the letter which you sent me for him (and which came to hand last night only) unopened. The Doctr married a lady of Newtown in Pennsylvania—a Miss Harris, and had connexions, I believe, in trade with some gentn in the City of Philada, but with whom they were formed, I am unable to inform...