1From George Washington to Gabriel Jones, 29 July 1758 (Washington Papers)
Permit me to return you my sincerest thanks for your great assistance at the late Election; and to assure you, that I shall ever return a lively sense of the favour. I am extreme sorry that you neglected your own Election in Augusta by this means—but I hope you are secure in Hampshire. Our Expedition seems overcast with too many Ills to give you any satisfaction in a transient relation of...