George Washington Papers

To George Washington from John Rumney, Jr., 8 September 1784

From John Rumney, Jr.

Whitehaven [England] 8th Septr 1784

Sir

Having only arrivd a few Days ago, I have not opportunity of communicating to your Excellency as I could wish, the Particulars of the Enquiries you were pleas’d to honor me with. You may rely, Sir, on my Diligence in executing your Commission & giving you the earliest Advice. I have wrote to Newcastle abt a Bricklayer, that Place furnishing Mechanicks in that Branch preferable to any other in those Parts.1 As we shall have a Ship sailing in Jany for Alexandria I hope to send both by her. I write this by the Hope Ct. Cragg a fine new Ship, which my Partners & I send out, to Potomack. in which Vessel my Friend & Partner Mr Robt Sanderson goes, I shall esteem it a particular Favor, your Excellency’s honoring him with your Notice.2 I sincerely thank you, Sir, & Mrs Washington for the genteel Present of Sea Stock sent me off by your Boat.3 I remain with the greatest Esteem & Respect Your Excellency’s most oblig’d & h’ble Servt

John Rumney

ALS, DLC:GW.

1. For GW’s request to Rumney to locate flagstones and artisans for him in England, see GW to Rumney, 3 July 1784.

2. Robert Sanderson had dinner with GW at Mount Vernon as early as 12 June 1785 and last dined there a year later, on 4 June 1786, before crossing the Potomac “on his way to embark at Leonard town, Saint Marys, for England” (Diaries description begins Donald Jackson and Dorothy Twohig, eds. The Diaries of George Washington. 6 vols. Charlottesville, Va., 1976–79. description ends , 4:341).

3. See GW to John Rumney, Sr., 5 July 1784.

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    To George Washington from John Rumney, Jr., 8 September 1784
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    “To George Washington from John Rumney, Jr., 8 September 1784,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/04-02-02-0066. [Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Confederation Series, vol. 2, 18 July 1784 – 18 May 1785, ed. W. W. Abbot. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1992, p. 70.]

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