From George Washington to Andrew, Catherine, and William Ramsay, 23 February 1799

To Andrew, Catherine, and William Ramsay

Mount Vernon 23d Feb. 1799

General & Mrs Washington present their Compliments to Mr Andw Ramsay, Mrs Ramsay and Mr Willm Ramsay and request the favour of their Company to dine on Tuesday next, with the couple Newly Married.

An answer is requested.

AL (photocopy), DLC:GW.

William and Andrew Ramsay were merchants in Alexandria. They were the twin sons of Patrick and Elizabeth Ramsay. Andrew was the husband of Catherine Graham Ramsay (d. 1844), daughter of Richard Graham (d. 1796) and Jane Brent Graham. GW records in his diary that the three of them dined at Mount Vernon on 26 Feb., a snowy day, along with the twin’s sister Eliza Ramsay Potts, William Hodgson, and three Lee siblings: Mary Lee Fendall, Edmund Jennings Lee, and Lucy Lee (Diaries description begins Donald Jackson and Dorothy Twohig, eds. The Diaries of George Washington. 6 vols. Charlottesville, Va., 1976–79. description ends , 6:336).

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Title: From George Washington to Andrew, Catherine, and William Ramsay, 23 February 1799
Author: Washington, George
Recipients: Ramsay, Andrew
Ramsay, Catherine
Ramsay, William
Date: 23 February 1799

Reference

Cite as: “From George Washington to Andrew, Catherine, and William Ramsay, 23 February 1799,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/06-03-02-0295. [Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Retirement Series, vol. 3, 16 September 1798 – 19 April 1799, ed. W. W. Abbot and Edward G. Lengel. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1999, p. 394.]