1To George Washington from William Brockenbrough, 29 September 1755 (Washington Papers)
...an appointment as a “Sea Officer” on the Great Lakes (Fauquier to Lord Anson, 10 Dec. 1761,...
2To George Washington from Robert Orme, 10 November 1755 (Washington Papers)
...may be at present on the other Side of the great Lake.
3To George Washington from Robert Dinwiddie, 8 May 1756 (Washington Papers)
...forts that secured the French hold on the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence River, but he was...
4From John Adams to George Washington, 6 January 1776 (Adams Papers)
..., as it is a Passage to Canada to the Great Lakes and to all the Indians Nations. No Effort...
5To George Washington from John Adams, 6 January 1776 (Washington Papers)
..., as it is a Passage to Canada to the Great Lakes and to all the Indians Nations. No Effort...
6To George Washington from Brigadier General Lachlan McIntosh, 3 April 1779 (Washington Papers)
...be the Case, or that they would remove over the Great Lakes.
7To George Washington from Brigadier General Lachlan McIntosh, 27 April 1779 (Washington Papers)
...as well as the Western Tribes over the great Lakes, or bring them to Terms, as they...
8To George Washington from William Lord Stirling Alexander, 14 September 1782 (Washington Papers)
...to Lake Ontario and of Course to all the Great Lakes above it. the only way I know of...
9To George Washington from Rufus Putnam, 16 June 1783 (Washington Papers)
...and all the posts seated on the great Lakes, will enevitably be lost without such...
10Enclosure, 15 June 1789 (Washington Papers)
...by the British government on the Great Lakes were not actually surrendered until after...
11To George Washington from William Smith, 25 February 1793 (Washington Papers)
...not produce the projected volume on the Indians of the Great Lakes before his death in 1803.
12Enclosure: Observations on the Potomac River, 3 November 1793 (Washington Papers)
...The fur and peltry trade of the great Lakes may be brought to the City of Washington, through...
13To George Washington from Timothy Pickering, 6 March 1795 (Washington Papers)
.... I confess that no one position on the great lakes strikes me as more important; because it...
14To George Washington from William Alexander, 15 March 1796 (Washington Papers)
..., eastward of the Mississippi, westward and southward of the Great Lakes and
15To George Washington from James McHenry, 28 November 1796 (Washington Papers)
...I fought his battles on the Borders of our great Lake—for my name has been well known to your...
16To George Washington from Elkanah Watson, 10 February 1797 (Washington Papers)
...improvement of our interior water to the great Lakes will undoubtedly divert your main object:...