To George Washington from Tobias Lear, 10 February 1797
From Tobias Lear
Washington [D.C.] Feby 10th 1797
My dear Sir,
I have this moment returned from Berkley, and as business will call me to Philadelphia in the course of next week1 I shall have the pleasure of communicating to you fully every thing relative to the subject of the Arsenal land &c. At present I have only time to say, that Rutherford’s deed has not yet come to hand, and that Wager’s is in the office to be recorded at the Court of this month. The absence of one of the parties prevented its being done at the last Court; but I have the strongest obligation for their attendance at this.2 My best respects attend Mrs Washington & the family. I am most truly & respectfully Your obliged & sincere friend
Tobias Lear.
ALS, DLC:GW.
1. Lear was in Philadelphia by 27 Feb. (see GW to George Washington Parke Custis, that date).
2. For the Harper’s Ferry tract that had been conveyed to the United States for the establishment of a federal arsenal, and for the deeds for that tract, which involved the Wager family, Thomas Rutherford, and Robert Griffith, see Lear to GW, 17 Jan., and n.7.