1To George Washington from Charles Lewis, 21 September 1757 (Washington Papers)
Nothing could have given me more Dissatisfaction than the inclosd Letter from our Friend Colo. Wm Taliaferro, I am inform’d Mr Smith has been prudent enough to send You a Coppy of the Depositions, he is to Day clear’d honourably by a call’d Court of Inquiry, neither Murder, Man Slaughter, or even Chance Med. found against him. I thought it my Duty to do him all the Service in my Power, tho’...